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Quotes About Affection

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.
~ Honore de Balzac
Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
~ Jane Austen
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
~ Jeph Jacques
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
~ Josh Billings
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.
~ Walter Cronkite
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.
~ Nicholas Sparks
A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
~ Abel Stevens
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
~ Adam Smith
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
~ Agatha Christie
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
~ Alexander Pope
I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.
~ Anita Stansfield
I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.
~ Anna Friel
I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.
~ Arne Glimcher
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
~ Ben Jonson
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
~ C. S. Lewis
I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.
~ Cassandra Clare
The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you
~ Charlaine Harris
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
~ Christina Rossetti