I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
Hedy Lamarr

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
Lincoln Ellsworth

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
Martin Delany

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.
Perry Como

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

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
Michael Shanks

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey

Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Mary Baker Eddy

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.
Charles Inglis

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes Smedley

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome