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Quotes About Affection

For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy
~ William Shakespeare
To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only love she inspires is the canine kind.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.
~ Gary Chapman
I love my children unconditionally.
~ Gary Kemp
And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!
~ Gayle King
Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
~ George Carlin
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
~ George Eliot
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
~ George Eliot
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.
~ George Farquhar
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
~ George Herbert
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
~ George Herbert
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
~ George Herbert
Love makes a good eye squint.
~ George Herbert
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
~ George Horace Lorimer
It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.
~ George MacDonald
Can they love without a word for it?
~ George R. R. Martin
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
~ George Santayana