Top 272 Affection Quotes

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
Eartha Kitt
I want people, who don’t care about their partners be treated harshly. Marriage is supposed to be a bond of love and affection. Women should start thinking independently when it comes to issues like rape.
Rituparna Sengupta
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
I’ve got huge affection for Everton. It was my life for over a decade.
David Moyes
If I return to Spain someday, Atletico Madrid would be one of my top choices without doubt. It is a club that I have a lot of affection for.
Pepe Reina
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you’re poking fun at someone or something, there’s still an affection for it.
Bob Newhart
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile Gautier
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats
What I said was that Joe’s family was different than my family, that he came from a very affectionate family. My family was very loving, but we didn’t show that kind of affection. So for me, that took me a little while to get used to that.
Jill Biden
I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I’m a satirist at heart. And it’s easy to satirize New York.
Theresa Rebeck
I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It’s when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn’t enough in a relationship – understanding and communication are very important aspects.
Yuvraj Singh
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
Martin Delany
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
Willard Scott
A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
To make a man happy, treat him like a dog – plenty of affection and a loose leash.
Cyd Charisse
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone’s affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
Gary Zukav
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren’t our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
Natalie Cole
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
Have I ever hated anyone? Higuain – but he surprised me after getting to know him. No. 9s are selfish, they do a different job, but he has a generous, playful side. He’s a demanding guy because you have to be pamper him, motivate him. He needs affection to feed the incredible potential he has.
Giorgio Chiellini
At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, ‘I’m not worthy,’ because ‘Star Wars’ is so much bigger than all of us.
Mark Hamill
There’s great affection, tremendous loyalty, but anytime you open up the season, when you walk in the locker room, there is a circle, and my obligation to everyone in that locker room is the circle has to be as strong as possible to give us a chance to win.
Jim Irsay
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
John Paul Jones
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Jane Addams
All those authors there, most of whom of course I’ve never met. That’s the poetry side, that’s the prose side, that’s the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you’ve enjoyed.
Norman MacCaig
Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
Andrew Greeley
In the poetic tradition, the heart’s affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people’s hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
David Whyte
An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong’s history, culture, politics, and social development, and at the same time, we must make them have their national identity.
Carrie Lam
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge
When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.
Thomas Middleton
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone
The affection shown to me by the Schalke fans is extraordinary and unforgettable.
Raul
You can’t find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
Carrie Fisher
I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.
Marquis de Lafayette
I have a lot of affection to give, and sometimes I’m a little overbearing.
Dove Cameron
I did not know that I was being called the ‘Sandalwood Princess.’ It definitely feels good, but more than such titles, it is their love and affection behind such titles that makes me happy.
Radhika Pandit
If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.
Bernhard Goetz
I’ve always been a person that’s totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they’re the guys that are always going to be there. It’s just you being a friend to me and I’m being a friend to you.
Brody Jenner
Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.
Tony Curtis