I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For me sport was a religion, with religious sentiment. -
Pierre de Coubertin
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. -
Saint Teresa of Avila
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
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
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
