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Most people would rather give than get affection.

Aristotle Topic: Affection

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen Topic: Affection

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Leigh Hunt Topic: Affection

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot Topic: Affection

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Jean Baptiste Lacordaire Topic: Affection

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith Topic: Affection

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran Topic: Affection

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

Pindar Topic: Affection

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Libbie Fudim Topic: Affection

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.

J B Yeats Topic: Affection

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois Topic: Affection

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother Topic: Affection

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha Topic: Affection

The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.

Saiom Shriver Topic: Affection

The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand of welcome.

Saiom Shriver Topic: Affection

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Jean Baptiste Lacordaire Topic: Affection

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan P Smith Topic: Affection

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Topic: Affection

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Leigh Hunt Topic: Affection

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Topic: Affection

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