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Quotes About Affection

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better
~ William Shakespeare
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
~ Unknown
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.
~ Rita Hayworth
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
~ Moliere
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I may not be a smart man but I know what love is
~ Teilhard de Chardin
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~ Charles Morgan
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Who knows how long I've loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will.
~ The Beatles
Where there is love there is pain
~ Spanish proverb
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
~ Marcel Proust
Suffering is the true cement of love
~ Paul Sabatier
Love is a believing creature
~ Ovid
Love is the only gold.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
They do not love that do not show their love.
~ William Shakespeare
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
~ Dr Samuel Johnson
If music be the food of love, play on.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
~ Washington Irving
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
~ Marcel Proust
I feel wonderful because I see The love light in your eyes. And the wonder of it all Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.
~ Eric Clapton