I was a hugger. I’ve always been a hugger. I didn’t realize that is really jarring for a lot of Brits. I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside, that there is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door and […]
Affection Quotes
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?
Fickleness, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can […]
Platonic, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool’s name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Uxoriousness, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one’s own wife.
Where is fancy bred? In the heart or in the head? (The Merchant of Venice)
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do – so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! (Beatrice Stella Tanner)
My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal. (As You Like It)
