In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. Jane Austen

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. Leigh Hunt

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot

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

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Kahlil Gibran

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. Pindar

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. Libbie Fudim

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. J. B. Yeats

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Andre Maurois

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. Nan Fairbrother

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha

The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. Saiom Shriver

The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand of welcome. Saiom Shriver

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

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

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. Leigh Hunt

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow