Quotes About Affection

Muchas mujeres son tan exageradas en su culto, que quieren encontrar siempre un dios en su ídolo, mientras que las que aman a un hombre más por lo que es que por sí mismas adoran sus pequeñeces tanto como sus grandezas.

To be loved, dear, to be comprehended, is the greatest of all joys; I pray that you may taste it!

Nay, do not cry, papa," she said, kissing him.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. The soup warming before the fire must be watched. Am I the kind of woman, do you suppose, to shirk such cares? The humblest task may earn a rich harvest of affection. How pretty is a child's laugh when he finds the food to his liking!

If light is the first love of life, is not love the light of the heart?

There are those for whom a woman would love to make such a sacrifice; even if, as often happens, it is for the sake of a man who cannot make allowances for an outbreak of temper.

they have tortured me for my sin of affection.

Agathe rose; her scissors and work fell at her feet; she went and kissed Joseph's head, and dropped two tears on his hair. "He is your passion, that fellow," said the painter. "We all have our hopeless passions

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

A relationship that has become artificial, and connected, on one side, with a sense of duty rather than with spontaneous affection, is always an uncomfortable one.

I was glad Nutkin was a red squirrel, because I wouldn't have liked for Greta and me to have to hoe up our yards, looking for buried acorns. We would have done it, though. We would have done anything for Nutkin. She was the cutest baby animal I ever saw, and both of us had fallen in love with her.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow -- To Be old friends?

Y cuando sane y no tenga más delirio…¿me querrás todavía?

Y cuando no tenga más delirio… me querrás todavía?

What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain?

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

But aunties are equivocal figures of affection, wicked and unreliable, pretending love only so long as they are short of love themselves, and then off.

He was a very tenderhearted guy - not towards people necessarily, but towards goldfish.

Vinnie loves me. He loves me. It. Wasn/t. Shit

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

At long last Helen raised herself on an elbow and turning towards the man, kissed him gently. Her eyes shone, contented and happy. "Ah, and now, darling, aren't you ashamed for having kept me waiting so long?" she chided.

The world thinks we idealize our friend, and tells us that love is proverbially blind. Not so: it is only love that sees.

Love is the only permanent relationship among men, and the permanence is not an accident of it, but is of its very essence.