Affectionate Quotes

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kiss, Answer, Correct

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

Themselves, Witty, Devout

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

Mother, Few, Bring

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid

Heart, Whether, Call

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Life, Good, Loyalty

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
Larry David

Happen, Around, Often

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

School, Him, After

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.
Rod Stewart

Feeling, Bored, Towards

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
A. N. Wilson

Respect, Thoughts, Republican

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
Ian Mcewan

Great, Father, Problem

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
Victoria Beckham

Him, Thought, After

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'
Martin Amis

Mother, Saying, Sometimes

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Northrop Frye

Stupid, Human, Fact

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Margaret Cavendish

Children, Law, Young

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
Bob Balaban

Family, God, Wanted

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.
Doug Flutie

Great, Wife, Parents

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
Ernestine Rose

Husband, Wife, Law

I'm an affectionate person.
Zara Phillips

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.
Galeazzo Ciano

Men, Farewell, Between

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.
Lucien Bouchard

Success, Good, Great

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.
Annalena McAfee

Feelings, Newspapers, Towards

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