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The affection you get back from children is sixpence given as change for a sovereign. Edith Nesbit
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I’ve never been particularly affectionate. One of my troubles is I don’t attract affection very much and when I do I tend to repel it. Gilbert Harding, interview BBC 1960
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:2
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. Audrey Hepburn
I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. Tupac Shakur
So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn’t even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it. George Foreman
Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle
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
You can’t find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well. Carrie Fisher
Oh, Lizzy! I’d do anything rather than marry without affection. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me. W H Auden
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination. John Keats
Public Displays of Affection, or PDAs. The Office US s7e16: PDA, Holly, NBC 2011
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it. Simone Weil
If our affections be tried, our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess’s being: it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her – doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Marcel Proust