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quotes by topic Affection

" The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. "

George Bernard Shaw

Affection

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

People , Affection , Dying

" The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. "

Man , Affection , Boasts , Deception

" All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God. "

God , Attention , Affection , Gift

" He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. "

Affection

" Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. "

Duty , Affection

" Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. "

Affection

" We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. "

Affection , Romance

" I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. "

Affection , banter

" The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. "

Friendship , Affection

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