Quotes About Affection

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love

Little friends may prove great friends.

Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Love is not something your heart falls into, but something that picks it up and sets it soaring.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion

They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees everything in the loved one, notices everything; but melts it all into one flame with the great and simple: I love you.

We came together underneath the stars above. What started out as liking soon developed into love. I sense a certain something that, in my heart, felt so true that I knew I waited all my life to fall in love with you.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything

There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing so devastating as love lost.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others

If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket

The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire