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Letter "A" » affections
«Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.»
Author: Alfred A. Montapert
(Author)
| Keywords:
affections, animals, grateful, live up to, loyal, predictable, reliable, standards
«A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.»
«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.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Love
| Keywords:
affections, caressed, Caresses, caressing, expressions, restrained, roots, The Roots, wholly
«Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
addresses, affections, captivated, captivates, captivating, eloquence, hearer, hearers, high-pitched, pitch, subduing
«All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| About:
Affection,
Beauty,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
affections, captivate, captivated, captivates, captivating, inspire, pleases
«A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
affections, History of, History of the
«A woman's life is a history of the affections»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
affections, History of, History of the
«Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
affections, ample, appraise, appraising, associations, attainment, auction, ballast, banner, cauldron, commerce, contributions, cutting room, cut out, deface, defaced, degraded, Fair dealing, flag down, gauge, gauged, gauging, good nature, gruel, idle talk, intent, knocked, measures, melted, overboard, pollute, pollutes, polluting, put up, rag, respectable, slab, Stars and Stripes, striped, talk down, theft, thefts, their talk, thick, venture, weighed, weighed down, worthless
«Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, straining
«A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Affection,
Jokes
| Keywords:
affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, strained, straining
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