AFFECTION

Related Subjects: Friendship, Kissing, Love, Tenderness

1. There are wonders in true affection: it is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles; wherein two so become one, as they both become two.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici

2. What's affection, but the power we give another to torment us?—BULWER-LYTTON, Darnley

3. Alas! our young affections run to waste,
   Or water but the desert.—BYRON, Childe Harold

4. With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.—DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit

5. What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again?—EMERSON, Essays

6. I never heard
   Of any true affection but 'twas nipped.—THOMAS MIDDLETON, Blurt, Master-Constable

7. When affection only speaks, Truth is not always there.—THOMAS MIDDLETON, The Old Law

8. There are two sorts of affection—the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.—PINERO, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

9. Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.—SCOTT

10. My affection hath an unknown bottom like the bay of Portugal.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

11. Affection is a coal that must be cool'd;
    Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis

12. Of such affection and unbroken faith As temper life's worst bitterness.—SHELLEY, The Cenci

13. One in whose heart Affection had no root.—SOUTHEY, Joan of Arc