Affectionate Quotes

• Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

  Marcel Proust

  Witty, Sweet, Night

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• 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.

  Muhammad

  Order, Doe, Littles

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• A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Smile, Spiritual, Important

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

  Horace Walpole

  Growing Up, Memories, Blessing

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• Good men must be affectionate men.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Good Man

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.228

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• People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

  George Eliot

  Witty, People, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Brother, Children, Sister In Law

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• 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

  Kings, Stupid, Sheep

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.143, Princeton University Press

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• The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

  Lucien Bouchard

  Jobs, Promise, Together

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• No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

  Herbert Hoover

  Education, School, Aggravation

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

  John Lubbock

  Love, Sympathy, Thoughtful

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• My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

  Bob Balaban

  Supportive, Thank God, My Family

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2008.

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• Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Law, Wife

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

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, Affection

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• The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Funny, Farewell, Men

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• Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

  C. S. Lewis

  True Love, Famous Love, Falling In Love

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.37, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

  Victoria Beckham

  Couple, Party, Years

  "MarieClaire.com Exclusive: Victoria Beckham Tells All". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kissing, Answers, Slap In The Face

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1948). “The permanent Goethe”

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• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  Ovid

  Heart, My Heart, Misfortunes

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• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Loyalty, Good Life, Passion

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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  Larry David

  Happens

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Mother, Boys

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896)

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• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

  Leo Rosten

  Communication, Humor, Play

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

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• The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Dog, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

  Mary Von Schrader Jarrell

  Father, Encyclopedia

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