Quotes about Affection
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."
— Charles Dickens
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.
— Susan May Warren
Our fourth child, decided to draw pictures for me in 1 Peter, in red ink. Her scribbles are there today, and I love every blot!
— James Goll
Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.
— Janette Oke
Love is supreme and unconditional. Like is nice, but limited.
— Duke Ellington
For the first time he was face to face with his hovering dread: he was judging where he still adored.
— Edith Wharton
The only way I can help you is by loving you,' Selden said in a low voice.
— Edith Wharton
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage
— Edmund Burke
He says "I love you" first, even when we respond with an indifferent shrug or the equivalent of a passing, "Oh, thanks." And in this we discover why it might be hard for us to move toward others: the one taking the initiative in the relationship—the one who loves most—is the one who risks humiliation.
— Edward Welch
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
— Albert Camus