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Quotes About Affection

I love you as I've never loved you.
~ Henry James
I do nothing for any one in the world but you. But for you I'll do anything. Good, good, said Kate. That's how I like you. He waited again an instant. Then you swear to it? To 'it'? To what? Why, that you do 'like' me. For it's only for that, you know, that I'm letting you do—well, God knows what with me.
~ Henry James
The great thing is to love something.
~ Henry James
Recibí su beso y, mientras lo estrechaba un momento entre mis brazos, tuve que hacer el más enorme esfuerzo para no llorar.
~ Henry James
We please the people we don't care for, we displease those we do!
~ Henry James
It's as if he said to me: I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.
~ Henry James
I've not made her my bosom-friend; but I like her in spite of her faults. Ah well, said Ralph, I'm afraid I shall dislike her in spit of her merits.
~ Henry James
He has made me believe in true love; I never did before!
~ Henry James
I don't go off easily, but when I'm touched, it's for life. It's for life, Miss Archer, it's for life.
~ Henry James
We've had, as it seems to me, such quite beautiful days together that I hope it won't come to you too much as a shock when I ask if you think you could regard me with any satisfaction as a husband.
~ Henry James
Haven't you kept anything? Hyacinth went on, without heeding this challenge. She looked at him a moment. I have kept you!
~ Henry James
Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.
~ Henry M. Christman
Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I'm ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.
~ Henry Miller
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.
~ Henry Miller
I am not drunk, and I am not sentimental, and I tell you you are the most wonderful woman in the world.
~ Henry Miller
The one thing that we can never get enough of is Love and the one thing we never give enough is Love.
~ Henry Miller
Give me a few days of peace in your arms
~ Henry Miller
I don't care what happens. I love you and that's what I wanted to say over the phone. That's what I wanted to write. I love you. Let things go to smash. I love you.
~ Henry Miller
The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love. He who loveth mean and sordid things doth thereby become base and vile, but a noble and well-placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.
~ Henry Scougal
When all his other gifts could not prevail, he at last made a gift of himself, to testify his affection and engage theirs.
~ Henry Scougal
As for the hardships they may meet with, they rejoice in them, as opportunities to exercise and testify their affection; and since they are able to do so little for God, they are glad of the honor to suffer for him.
~ Henry Scougal
Love is that powerful and prevalent passion by which all the faculties and inclinations of the soul are determined, and on which both its perfection and happiness depend. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble and well-placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit unto a conformity with the perfections which it loves.
~ Henry Scougal
Had I my choice of all things that might tend to my present felicity, I would pitch upon this, to have my heart possessed with the greatest kindness and affection towards all men in the world. I
~ Henry Scougal
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow