Affections Quotes

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

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.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.