Quotes about Affection
Supposing a man not only deserves nothing good from you, but he has also provoked you with injustices and injuries—even this is not just cause for you to stop embracing him with affection and fulfilling your duties of love to him.
— John Calvin
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
— John Donne
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
— John Donne
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
— John Donne
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
— Khalil Gibran
The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.
— Maria Edgeworth
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
— Og Mandino
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
— Martin Luther
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
— Dorothy Sayers
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
— Washington Irving