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Quotes About Affection

Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! What lying epitaphs they make over the corpse of love! What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! Most of us have got or written drawers full of them. They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun
~ William Thackeray
I SUPPOSE THERE'S A TIME IN PRACTICALLY EVERY YOUNG boy's life when he's affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love.
~ Wilson Rawls
The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.
~ Winston Churchill
He moved towards her, and knew the moment he touched her that something had won his battle for him. He took her face in his hands, held it like a cup to be drunk from, and then kissed her. With a serious unsmiling mouth he touched her eyelids, her cheeks, her hair, and sighed, as if for the moment her acceptance were all and there was no further desire in him.
~ Winston Graham
Ross said quietly: 'Yes, I could sleep with you.' She smiled at him. He said: 'And for the same reasons will not.' 'Thank you, Captain.' He said: 'You've always been my firm friend – from so long ago. Almost before we knew each other well at all.' 'I believe I fancied you from the beginning.' 'I believe it was something more important than that, even then.
~ Winston Graham
She looked at him candidly, without coquetry and without fear. "I live only for you, Ross." A breeze lifted the curtain at one of the open windows. The birds outside were quiet at last and it was dark. He kissed her again, that time on the mouth.
~ Winston Graham
Poi, mentre la fiamma moriva lentamente e un oggetto dopo l'altro nella stanza scivolava nelle ombre, [Demelza] si sdraiò e si rannicchiò insieme al cane, sentendo la tensione di lui che si allentava man mano che gli sussurrava parole amorevoli all'orecchio.
~ Winston Graham
Le loro voci erano basse e calde. La pura intimità della loro unione.
~ Winston Graham
Ross provava un senso di perfetta soddisfazione. Riceveva amore e lo donava in egual misura, generosamente. In quel momento il loro rapporto non aveva alcun difetto.
~ Winston Graham
Ross?» «Sì, fiorellino?» «Ancora fiorellino» disse lei. «Stasera sono stata un bocciolo e un fiorellino. Spero che tra qualche anno non comincino a chiamarmi baccello.» Lui rise a bassa voce ma a lungo.
~ Winston Graham
A Nampara, nonostante tutti i vincoli che doveva rispettare, era libera; e lavorava insieme a persone cui si era affezionata e per un uomo che adorava.
~ Winston Graham
All the conflicting feeling inside her suddenly found an outlet. The mixed motives for asking him in—the liking, the affection, the feminine curiosity, the piqued pride—suddenly merged into indignation to keep out something stronger. She was as much alarmed at her own feelings as indignant with him, but the situation had to be saved somehow.
~ Winston Graham
ma Ross ormai conosceva Verity meglio di quanto la conoscessero suo padre e suo fratello. Il suo affetto nasceva lentamente, ma era difficile da spezzare. [...]
~ Winston Graham
Ascolta | come mi batte forte il tuo cuore
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Pos?uchaj jak mi pr?dko bije Twoje serce.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
When I grow too old to dream, I'll have you to remember, When I grow too old to dream, Your love will stay in my heart.
~ Unknown
I ask you most humbly to continue loving me a little, and to be content for the moment with this token of a congratulation until new drawers can be made for my small little brain box, so I have a place to put the brain that I still hope to acquire.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sir, if you are otherwise discreet, you will consider that you have gone far enough. At my brother's request I am treating you no less kindly than Ampflise treated my uncle Gahmuret, without going to bed together. My kindness would in the long run outweigh hers, if anyone were to weigh us properly. And besides, Sir, I don't know who you are, and yet in such a short space of time you want to have my love.
~ Unknown
Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.
~ Woody Allen
I shouldn't have had the waiter debone my fish," she once said at Lutèce. Horrified, I asked, "You don't want the bones put back?" I braced myself. Would I have to make that request? But anything for that woman because I did love her.
~ Woody Allen
Love betters what is best
~ Wordsworth
Monkey now produced his staff and the two of them did their best to kill each other, like the affectionate in-laws they were.
~ Wu Cheng'en
Qué lástima que mis mejores sentimientos me hagan vomitar. La gente se enamora y no vomita, por eso se envenena.
~ Xavier Velasco
somos los más felices mientras dura el abrazo, y hasta un poco después porque un abrazo así tiene que ser mucho más importante que unos vulgares vientos de monz
~ Xavier Velasco