Affections Quotes

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert

Love, Live, True

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo

Heart, Father, Friend

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Love, Men

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

Nature, Human, Others

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton

Taken, Advantage, Steal

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats

Truth, Heart, Nothing

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin

Heart, Wishes, Scientific

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

Great, Difference, Jokes

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

Great, Different, Jokes

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte

Nothing, Value, Full

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

Life, Love, Die

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

Life, Great, Death

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Max Lucado

Love, Time, Miss

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope

Child, Simplicity, Manners

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier

Friendship, Place, Difficult

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving

Life, History, Woman

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

Reason, Reflection, Room

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

Love, Friendly, Touch

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perpetual, Bodies, Flux

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

Cannot, Tell, Lightning

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Love, True, End

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Gloria Estefan

Parents, Makes, Expressive

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Maria Mitchell

Good, Sad, Woman

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone

Powerful, Soul, Influence

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
Matthew Simpson

Age, Human, Thoughts

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander

Men, Else, Morality

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
Mary Astell

Self, Soul, Her

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.
Carrie Brownstein

Film, Television, Ways

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Joseph Butler

Happiness, Desire, General

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Joseph Butler

May, Natural, Degree

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