Ovid
Poet
"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
Affectionate quotes
Affectionate
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody."
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