Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, to the crucifying all things here below, until they become to me a dead and deformed thing, no way suitable for affectionate embraces.
It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection. . . a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
You could start a fire with the heat between you two. You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection. . . Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!
We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.
I'm very fond of piano players.
Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
[Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our father made incredible damage outside of the home but we ask for reciprocity because the only thing he ever gave us within the household was love.
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.