Affection Quotes
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Aristotle
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If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.
Jane Austen
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
William James
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick deWitt
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There are two sorts of affection – the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
Arthur Wing Pinero
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
Mahesh Babu
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No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.
Rudyard Kipling
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Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
Oscar Wilde
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl Abraham
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With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.
S. J. Watson
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It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
L. Ron Hubbard
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For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Elizabeth of the Trinity
