Quotes with affection

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  • Christian Nevell Bovee 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 Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Jan Van Ruysbroeck Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
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  • Agnes Smedley 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
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Jerome of Stridon Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
    Jerome of Stridon
    Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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  • Charles Dickens Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Aristotle Most people would rather give than get affection.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Brendon Urie My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Basil Rathbone Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • George Eliot Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Kate Millet Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Thomas à Kempis Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Ada Leverson Somehow she had thought of him so much that when she actually saw him again her affection seemed cooler. Had she worn out the passion by dint of constancy?
    Love at Second Sight (1916)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • E. M. Forster The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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