Affection Quotes - Page 34

• Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Passion, Long

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.161, VM eBooks

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

  David Hume

  Jealousy, Passion, Violence

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1298, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.

  David Hume

  Passion, Vanity, Degrees

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.66, VM eBooks

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

  David Hume

  Passion, Imagination, Certain

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is the piety of the affections.

  Theodore Parker

  Love, Love Is, Piety

  4 Copy quote

• I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

  George Sanders

  Flower, Men, Winning

  10 Copy quote

• I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

  Joni Mitchell

  Passion, Heart, Mind

  Joni Mitchell (1998). “Joni Mitchell”, p.125, Giunti Editore

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

  Harriet Martineau

  Ideas, Pennies, Mass

  6 Copy quote

• I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

  Djuna Barnes

  Bridges, Gaps, Potatoes

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

  John Tillotson

  Hatred, Mind, Ease

  10 Copy quote

• Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

  Mark Hopkins

  Honesty, Kindness, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

  Elizabeth I

  Able, Fear Of Death, Smitten

  14 Copy quote

• Affection! Affection is false.

  Elizabeth I

  21 Copy quote

• In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  7 Copy quote

• Pow'r above pow'rs!
  O heavenly eloquence!
  That with the strong rein of commanding words,
  Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
  Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

  Samuel Daniel

  Strong, Men, Guides

  Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Morning, Prayer

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

  James Martineau

  Memories, Grief, Delight

  7 Copy quote

• The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.

  Jane Porter

  Love, Sacrifice, Light

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

  William Whewell

  Men, Desire, Action

  William Whewell (1845). “The Elements of Morality, Including Polity”, p.172

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Cutting, Emotional

  16 Copy quote

• Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

  Anna Magnani

  Children, Looks, Want

  15 Copy quote

• Guys make me feel secure and comfortable when I'm scared or need attention. They bring stability. And affection. And fun. And drama. You learn so much from a boyfriend. It's hard to put into words, I guess.

  Hilary Duff

  Fun, Drama, Guy

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hug, Havens, Finished

  "Would you like to buy a monkey?". thebloggess.com. July 27, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.

  Mary Hays

  Heart, Understanding, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Spirit, Spots, Concealing

  6 Copy quote