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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. -- Mary Wilson Little
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. -- Laurence Sterne
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. -- Jane Grey
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. -- Richard Francis Burton
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' -- Ralph Fiennes
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? -- Jane Austen
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success. -- Kim Harrison
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape. -- Rachel Cusk
Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. -- Robert Breault
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland
I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man. -- Kate Morton
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. -- Frederick William Robertson
If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. -- Jerry Spinelli
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin. -- Andreas Vesalius
The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture. -- Rumi
People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much. -- Phil Elvrum
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. -- Jane Grey
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. -- William Hazlitt
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. -- Lord Chesterfield
There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us. -- J.W. Goethe

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