Quotes About Affection

If light is the first love of life, is not love a light to the heart?

If I were a father I should hate the child, who, punctual as the clock, had every morning and evening an explosion of tenderness and wished me good-day and good-evening, because he was ordered to do so. It is in this way that all that is generous and spontaneous in human sentiment becomes strangled at its birth. You may judge from this what love means when it is bound to a fixed hour!

Infuse with passion, then, if you will, this friendship, and let the voice of love disturb its calm.

When, after remaining a long time aloof from her husband, a woman makes overtures of a very marked character in order to attract his love, she acts in accordance with the axiom of maritime law, which says: The flag protects the cargo.

The Spirit of Love has acquired strength, the result of all vanquished terrestrial passions.

The caresses over which love presides are always pure.

She worshiped her children. They were so young that she could hide the disorders of her life from their eyes, and could win their love.

In a lover the coarsest desire always shows itself as a burst of honest admiration.

Love is the union between natural craving and sentiment.

All the affected airs of sensibility which a woman puts on invariably deceive a lover; and on occasions when a husband shrugs his shoulders, a lover is in ecstasies.

When a woman utters the name of a man but twice a day, there is perhaps some uncertainty about her feelings toward him—but if thrice?—Oh! oh!

A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

Between persons who are perpetually in each other's company dislike or love increases daily; every moment brings reasons to love or hate each other more and more.

Now headache is an affection which affords infinite resources to a woman. This malady, which is the easiest of all to feign, for it is destitute of any apparent symptom, merely obliges her to say: "I have a headache." A woman trifles with you and there is no one in the world who can contradict her skull.

Let the man whom I deign to love beware how he thinks of anything but loving me!

To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

It is as absurd to deny that it is possible for a man always to love the same woman, as it would be to affirm that some famous musician needed several violins in order to execute a piece of music or compose a charming melody.

It is with kisses as with confidences, the first leads to another. They are multiplied, they interrupt conversation, they take its place; they scarce leave time for a sigh to escape.

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

Esistono poi degli individui nati mercenari che non fanno alcun bene agli amici o ai parenti per il fatto che è dovuto; mentre dal fare un piacere a sconosciuti, traggono un pizzico d'amor proprio: più il cerchio dei loro affetti è vicino, meno amano; più si allarga, più diventano premurosi.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...

It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.

Diceva: quando ami qualcuno soffri, ti struggi, è un sentimento che non puoi in alcun modo soffocare...

This is what it means to be loved Ã¢â'¬Â¦ when someone wants to touch you, to be tender