Affection Quotes

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo C. Rosten

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Thomas Fulle

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".

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Louise Erdrich

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Noah Webste

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - - A mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin