525 Quotes About Affection

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Do not keep the slanderer away,treat him with affection and honor:Body and soul, he scours all clean,babbling about this and that.

He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.

It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Most people would rather get than give affection

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.