Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "A" » affectionate
«Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
affectionate, agreeable, as we say, couple, To Die For, unwilling, utter
«Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.»
«Does it really matter what these affectionate people do - so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! Mrs»
«Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained»
«I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affectionate, appeals, business methods, contend, excitements, family business, in short, middle class, respectable, serenity, The Middle Class
«Do not be afraid of showing your 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.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Affection,
Character,
Kindness,
Love,
Sympathy,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
affectionate, helped, thoughtful
«Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affectionate, ceremonial, exclusively, Good Life, The Good Life, traditional, warmed
«Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affectionate, affirm, display, extraordinarily, In the Garden, occupations, perversities, perversity, suave, supple
«A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Solution
| Keywords:
affectionate
«Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Consequences,
Misfortune,
Mothers
| Keywords:
affectionate, Bad Boy, befall
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
