Top 272 Affection Quotes

I will never forget the affection of the Inter fans who made me feel like one of them and who always supported and helped me.
Samuel Eto’o
Animals speak with pure affection. It’s important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Bernadette Peters
I’m not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
Melissa Etheridge
I’m a person with a lot of affection for adventure – I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
Sebastian Pinera
Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Litera

Richard Hoggart’s cultural analysis ‘The Uses of Literacy’ was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people’s affection for things that aren’t serious, such as the products of pop culture.
David Hepworth
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome
I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.
Chris Wooding
I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.
Jeff Perry
The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.
Shervin Pishevar
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
Barack Obama
I needed a familiar club that would give me affection, and Sevilla can do that.
Samir Nasri
I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
Hedy Lamarr
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl Abraham
These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
Amaury Nolasco
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
John James Audubon
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
John Pearson
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
But most of all, I’m a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you’ve given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
Ernie Harwell
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
Steven Erikson
The No. 33 represents my own rise in football. It was the number of the first shirt that I wore at Palmeiras, so I feel a real affection for it.
Gabriel Jesus
Life is enhanced so much by dogs. When your kids get to an age where they don’t want to cuddle you as much and you have to force them into a judo hold to get affection, you’ve got dogs for that.
Sara Cox
I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.
Andres Iniesta
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Franz Liszt
Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.
Rod Rosenstein
I feel proud of the fact that I did something differently in ‘Brick Lane’ and got so much of love, affection and respect from audiences and filmmakers there.
Satish Kaushik
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you’d run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn’t go into work like you’re going on a date, like you’re hanging out with friends.
Penn Jillette
There’s something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.
Harvey Weinstein
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
Henny Youngman
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
Deepak Chopra
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Anthony Holden
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier
I am basically very introvert and shy, but when in the presence of the audience, my celeb image requires me to reciprocate their affection.
Koel Mallick
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. Forster
During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
Daniel Boone
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I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents – how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn’t completely their child any more but the child of another language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte
My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They’re loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, ‘The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.’ Funny thought.
Brendon Urie
Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents – and they of each other. That’s why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama’s public display of affection with George W. Bush at last month’s dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
Gwen Ifill
I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.
Sophia Loren
The first story I wrote was called ‘Days,’ and I have very little affection for it.
Deborah Eisenberg
We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened… what harm is there in this?… these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the ‘Most Great Peace’ shall come.
Baha’u’llah
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
Mary Astell
In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.
Divyanka Tripathi
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
Matthew Simpson
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Richard Steele
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
Roxane Gay
The one woman Trump does seem to totally respect is his daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka, on whom he heaps constant, effusive, at-times borderline creepy praise and physical affection.
Joy Reid
Jewish Americans weren’t just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success.
Ross Douthat
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
James Weldon Johnson
I’ve always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I’m so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
Lindsay Duncan
I don’t want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on and grow up.
Sophie Dahl
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
Dorothea Dix
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes Smedley
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
John Sergeant Wise
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps
I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it’s very much what I’ve always wanted to do. It’s one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.
Margaret Cho