Affection Quotes - Page 40

• Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

  Bruce Barton

  Simple, Voice, People

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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• An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Beauty, Winning, Grace

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.91

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• Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Beauty, Husband, Love Is

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• My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Home, Humble

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• The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Prayer, Evil, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 214), 1895.

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• A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Honesty, Mind, Ornaments

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• What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

  Roger L'Estrange

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.261

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• A girl's affections should never be won unsought.

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Should

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.149, Diversion Books

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• It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Habit

  "Ethel Churchill". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chapter 25, 1837.

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• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Offense

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• Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Attachment, Inanimate Objects, Our Love

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.147

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• When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Mind, Doe

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175

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• Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sweet, Kindness, Answers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.288

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• Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

  Lew Wallace

  Hurt, Women, Worst

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (A Tale of the Christ): Historical Novel”, p.358, e-artnow

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• I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Girl, Mother, School

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• Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

  James A. Garfield

  Character, Pride, May

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.593, Best Books on

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• Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

  F.B. Meyer

  Mean, Heart, Imagination

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• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Islands, Talking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.522, Library of America

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• Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

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• A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Thinking

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• Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pride, Two

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• No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

  Aristotle

  Men, Generous Spirit, Indulge In

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• At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  School, Heart, Boys

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.196, Booklassic

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• Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Sober, Exaggerated

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