Affection Quotes

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they don? t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.

Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government".

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - - So long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.

J. B. Yeats

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo C. Rosten

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow