Quotes About Affection

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of a coquette.

Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

He lavished his affection on the dog and even had Willie, sitting up on a chair, dine with him at his table. The dog reciprocated, and it was quite moving to watch Patton scuffling with his forbidding-looking but meek pet in his moments of raucous bliss.

My mom and I are very close.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

I cannot tell you if the dead, Who loved us fondly when on earth, Walk by our side, sit at our hearth, By ties of old affection led.... But this I know--in many dreams They come to us from realms afar, And leave the golden gates ajar Through which immortal glory streams.

Pavo Real was the nickname Señor Dorantes had given to Señor Narváez, because the governor took as careful care of his appearance as a peacock. But my master had no nickname for me. A nickname is something you use to tease someone, whether out of spite or out of affection, whereas all the things he called me were said without a hint of humor or irony; El Moro, El Negro, El Arabe. On most days, he did not even call me anything. He did not need to - I was always right behind him.

Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.

It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.

Liraz may have captured Ziri's soul like a butterfly in a bottle, but that was only a formality. It was already hers. And, clearly, judging by the state of her laugh-sobbing in Karou's arms, hers was his, too.