Affection Sayings & Quotes
These affection sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbours, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them, that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven, but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him. [A History of Christian Thought] - Rev. Arthur Cushman McGiffert
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. - Evelyn Waugh
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most un-worthy of toleration. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value. - Bertrand Russell
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language, We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. - Igor Stravinsky
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absent: Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilified; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. - George Eliot
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. - Joseph Conrad
Dog: A kind of additional or subsidiary deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This divine being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey. - Princess Diana