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

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

A woman's life is a history of the affections.
~ Washington Irving

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

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

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
~ Sir John Lubbock

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
~ Princess of Wales Diana

I never met a man I didn't like.
~ Will Rogers

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.
~ George Bernard Shaw

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

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
~ Enid Bagnold

Most people would rather give than get affection.
~ Aristotle

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2]
~ Bible

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

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 ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
~ Aristotle

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs thatà
~ Princess of Wales Diana