Affection Love Quotes

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

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

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, all duties even.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson