Quotes about Affection

Surely love is both work and wages.

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her. And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched.

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. it merely intensifies it.

Sweet, there is nothing left to say But this, that love is never lost

A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.

That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them. A baby's smile has the same effect.

The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core—which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

Every time I say I love you I mean it more than the last time.