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Quotes About Affectionate

I'm very lucky to have a very nurturing, close family.
~ Jeremy Strong
If the experience of delight presupposes a sustained, patient, sympathetic, and affectionate embrace of the world, then the decline of delight will be preceded by the erosion of the practical conditions that make such an embrace possible. What trends and practices in culture work to undermine a loving regard for creatures and things, and how have these trends and practices contributed to a situation in which relatively few people bow their heads before raising their forks?
~ Norman Wirzba
Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (>>>), and waiting for you to say something it understands.
~ Charles Severance
Ozymandias was Miss Rose's elderly smoke grey Persian. Like all Persians, he had a look of chronic discontent and contempt for society on his flat face, but Hunter knew that he'd be likely to be wildly affectionate before her visit was over. He just needed to take his own time about it.
~ Charlotte Moore
Scorpios are extremely affectionate and also very playful. When they are happy, they can be the sunniest people around but, when they are sad, then everyone suffers.
~ Sasha Fenton
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~ Leo Rosten
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself.  'There is nothing to be compared to it.  Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction: I am sure it will.
~ Jane Austen
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
~ Jane Austen
He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody.
~ Jane Austen
Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
~ Jane Austen
She had an excellent heart — her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.
~ Jane Austen
She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
~ Jane Austen
He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
~ Jane Austen
Elinor...whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding and coolness of judgment...her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.
~ Jane Austen
You're such a cupcake.
~ Janet Evanovich
She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says: 'Guess who!
~ P.G. Wodehouse
you are such a dag
~ Christi Malthouse
We are affectionate BJP and not fascist as termed by the opposition.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
and in the din Stephen cried, 'I insist upon a boat – I protest… Jack took him by the elbow and propelled him with affectionate violence into the cabin. 'My dear sir,' he said, 'I am afraid you must not insist, or protest: it is mutiny, you know, and you would be obliged to be hanged.
~ Patrick O'Brian
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
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
~ Herbert Hoover
What's happenin', the cakest of all my baby cakes?
~ Jessica Park
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
~ Northrop Frye
What Cinder is like to look at: The paws express Cinder the mischievous kitten, playing innocently, and the eyes and mouth reveal the lovable kittycat, the one who wants to sit in your lap, and the whole leopard reveals something else. The affectionate kitten is real, the mischievous kitten is real—and so is the leopard.
~ Unknown