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Quotes About Affection

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
~ Herman Hesse
If rain drops were kisses,I could send you showers. if hugs were seas I send you oceans. and if love was a person I send you me!!
~ Unknown
The best thing about me is you.
~ Unknown
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
~ Charles Dickens
Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.
~ Janeane Garofalo
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
~ Samuel Johnson
Love is the combination of everything we have ever set our sights on. What will you set your eyes upon?
~ Dinah Maria Mulock
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
~ William Cowper
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
~ Unknown
I'm steppin' outta this old brown shoe, baby, I'm in love with you.
~ George Harrison
Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.
~ Rudyard Kipling
For all true love is grounded on esteem.
~ George Villiers
Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent
~ William Shakespeare
Love necessitates eagerness To shake January's cold hand Not avert the eye And look what comes To love Before its making.
~ Unknown
One weakness is enough, and love is the deadliest.
~ Bertolt Brecht
When a man loves you, you can tell by the way he touches you. His hands that have been lifting heavy objects all day turn into sensitive hands that will never hurt you.
~ Unknown
Against persistent love there is nothing that can be done; it blunts all weapons
~ Unknown
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long
~ Robert Herrick
Love is the reward of love
~ Friedrich von Schiller
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
Beloved, let us love one another (1 John 4:7).
~ Bible
It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
~ Jason Mraz
He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson