Quotes with affectionate

  • 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.

Quotes 1 till 14 of 14.

  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
    - +
    +1
  • William Somerset Maugham Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Wood Krutch 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
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Leo Rosten Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
    - +
     0
  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • A. N. Wilson 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
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Balaban 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
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • George Eliot People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Northrop Frye 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
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
    - +
     0
  • Ovid Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
    - +
     0
  • Barry Cornwall Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
    - +
     0
  • William Hogarth You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
    -1
All affectionate famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com