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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. -- Alexander Pope
The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. -- Rene Descartes
those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... -- Eliza Haywood
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth -- John Ford
We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own. -- Christiaan Huygens
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful. -- Dusty Springfield
Different taste 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. -- Lee Iacocca
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. -- Charles Darwin
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. -- Alexander Hamilton
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. -- John Keats
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. -- Maria Mitchell
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. -- Daniel Boone
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. -- Mary Baker Eddy
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. -- Charlotte Bronte
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. -- Theophile Gautier
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. -- Adam Smith
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. -- Victor Hugo
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. -- William Bartram
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. -- Alfred A. Montapert
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. -- Matthew Simpson
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. -- David Hume
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. -- John Dryden
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
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. -- Max Lucado
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. -- Amelia Barr
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. -- Louis D. Brandeis
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' -- John Piper
Love is the piety of the affections. -- Theodore Parker
I never change, except in my affections. -- Oscar Wilde
In life, there are no perfect affections. -- James Merrill
The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. -- Washington Irving
A girl's affections should never be won unsought. -- Anne Bronte
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. -- James Martineau
A woman's life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit. -- Cesare Pavese
Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. -- Lew Wallace
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. -- Gloria Estefan
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. -- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up. -- William Jenkyn
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. -- John Dryden
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections. -- Walt Whitman
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. -- Henry de Montherlant
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. -- George Eliot
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind -- Thomas Jefferson
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. -- Laurence Sterne
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. -- William Ellery Channing
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. -- Francis Bacon
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. -- John Sterling
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. -- Isaac Barrow
Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention. -- Leonard Ravenhill
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. -- Aristotle
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. -- Laurence Sterne
all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. -- Lawrence Durrell
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. -- Demosthenes
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. -- Fernando Pessoa
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. -- George Eliot
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. -- F.B. Meyer
Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try. -- Kiera Cass
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. -- Mary Astell
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. -- Richard Steele
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin. -- John Owen
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. -- Francis Quarles
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God. -- Timothy Keller
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... -- Francis Bacon
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. -- Florence Nightingale
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. -- John Angell James
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. -- Francis Bacon
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us we should guide them, guide them -- Charles Dickens
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul. -- Richard Sibbes
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. -- Francis Quarles
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. -- Gustave Flaubert
Such is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me. -- Jo Grafford
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them. -- Charles Dickens
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. -- John Keats
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. -- Joseph Addison
For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world. -- Billy Graham
A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work. -- Dwight L. Moody
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. -- John Piper
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow -- Thomas Bray
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. -- William Ralph Inge
Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul. -- Ellen G. White
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -- William Shakespeare
Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. -- Swami Vivekananda
All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first. -- Matthew Henry
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. -- Jane Addams
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. -- Benjamin
Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. -- Robert Burns
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. -- William Blackstone
Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. -- Aldo Leopold
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. -- Henry David Thoreau
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. -- Tacitus
There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever. -- James Gates Percival
One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. -- Sigmund Freud
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections. -- Mary Baker Eddy
England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there. -- Bob Hope
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root! -- Robert Southey
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. -- Thomas Jefferson
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure? -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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