Quotes About Affection

The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle.

Here's my problem. On Valentine's Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Love defies all calculation. We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

I am fond of children — except boys.

To achieve willing compliance without undue waste in constant police supervision, the governing body must create an appearance of beneficence and helpfulness, sufficient to awaken some degree of affection and trust and loyalty.

There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.

I love Utah.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

I get the utmost pleasure in life out of showing my children how much I adore the life out of them.

Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

I'm not soppy-romantic. I don't buy Valentine's cards or any of that cheesy crap.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day.

I like to keep Valentine's dinner light so you don't crash after and can keep the fun going through the night!