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Quotes About Affection

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.
~ Sarah Louise Delany
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
~ Tamora Pierce
I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.
~ Wayne Wonder
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
~ William Shakespeare
We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.
~ William Shakespeare
I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
~ Alex Pettyfer
A blind man can see how much I love you
~ Amy Bloom
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
~ Aristotle
Good men must be affectionate men.
~ Samuel Richardson
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
~ Honore de Balzac
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
~ Jane Austen
Ladies, if you're at the mall and you think your man is looking at other girls just remember: If your man is at the mall with you... he... loves you.
~ Christopher Titus
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.
~ Denise Van Outen
I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
~ Dolly Parton
The perfect man is someone you love who also loves you.
~ Mildred Newman
Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.
~ Audrey Hepburn
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
~ Quentin Crisp
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
~ Henry David Thoreau