Affection Quotes
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground
Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.
She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo
Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
And ruin'd love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
