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Quotes About Affection

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
~ Francois Rabelais
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I have a wonderful wife who loves me, who's fantastic, who's just the thrill of my life - intriguing and mind-blowing.
~ Justin Hartley
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
~ Aly Khan
I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.
~ Jason Bateman
Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute.
~ Courtney Barnett
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.
~ Sloane Crosley
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
~ George Herbert
One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo
After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.
~ Kaley Cuoco
I have an extremely tight, extremely big family, and I love them so much it's almost painful.
~ Kerli
He's mine. I love him, and you can't have him, Christine. You can't have them both.
~ Sadie Montgomery
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ Saint Augustine
I was in love with loving.
~ Saint Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
~ Saint Augustine
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
~ Saint Augustine
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
~ Saint Jerome
Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.
~ Sally Bedell Smith
Like the princess, Philip didn't believe in public displays of affection, which made it easy to mask his feelings. But he revealed them privately in a touching letter to Queen Elizabeth in which he wondered if he deserved "all the good things which have happened to me," especially "to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly.
~ Sally Bedell Smith
Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day.
~ Sally Clarkson
He stroked Sido's cheek and bent down to kiss her, whispering what his heart had always known, what he had never said before to anyone. 'I love you, I always will.
~ Sally Gardner
How could I not love you, my sweet Annora? You brought me back to life again. You made the house a home. You made my daughters laugh. You even made me look up again and see God. I want you to come back and be part of my life. Now. Always.
~ Sally Laity
The poor bloke must have been besotted. Now me, I'm just in love.
~ Sally Wentworth