Top Affection Quotes
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes Smedley
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle
Franz Boas 
George Bernard Shaw 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
Abraham Joshua Heschel 
George Eliot 
William Dean Howells 
Hedy Lamarr All Affection Quotes
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother 
76% of people like this quote
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
70% of people like this quote
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes Smedley
68% of people like this quote
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
63% of people like this quote
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
59% of people like this quote
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
Lincoln Ellsworth
59% of people like this quote
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins
58% of people like this quote
Popular Affection Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldGeorge Bernard ShawMason Cooley AristotleGeorge EliotMichel de MontaigneKahlil GibranE. M. ForsterSamuel RichardsonFranklin D. RooseveltHenry Wadsworth LongfellowJim CarreyHenri Frederic AmielHedy LamarrW. H. Auden
C. S. Lewis BuddhaMarcel ProustAndrew JacksonHenny YoungmanChristian Nestell Bovee TerenceEthel WatersWilliam GodwinPrincess DianaTony CurtisXun ZiPatricia HeatonAnthony HoldenTupac Shakur
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