Quotes About Affection

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

Sweets to the sweet; farewell!

Say it with flowers.

An amiable weakness.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was 1.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead?

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

My debt to you, Beloved, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection - charm.

I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.