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Quotes About Affection

Open your heart and take us in, Love — love and me.
~ W. E. Henley
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
~ Unknown
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O never give the heart outright, from "Never give all the heart
~ W.B. Yeats
I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown.
~ W.B. Yeats
O you are wild for love of me And I with love am wild
~ W.B. Yeats
For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
~ W.B. Yeats
Women are crazy about pets. They're just crazy. Pets have nothing to do with it.
~ W.C. Fields
If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
~ W.H. Auden
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
~ W.H. Auden
I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?
~ W.H. Auden
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;
~ W.H. Auden
He presses my hand and he says he loves me, Which I find an admirable peculiarity.
~ W.H. Auden
Nothing can be loved too much, but all things can be loved in the wrong way.
~ W.H. Auden
Will you wheel death anywhere In his invalid chair, With no affectionate instant But his his attendant? For to be held for friend By an underdeveloped mind To be joke for children is Death's happiness: Whose anecdotes betray His favourite colour as blue Colour of distant bells And boys' overalls.
~ W.H. Auden
Love requires an Object But this varies so much Almost, I imagine anything will do: When I was a child I Loved a pumping engine Thought it every bit as Beautiful as you
~ W.H. Auden
Because I love you more than I can say, If I could tell you I would let you know.
~ W.H. Auden
Once you've been touched by the land, the wind never blows so cold again, because your love files the edges off it.
~ Unknown
It's love that makes the world go round.
~ Unknown
Please one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off
~ W.S. Merwin