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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»
«Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.»
Author: Leo Rosten (Novelist) | About: Humor | Keywords: affectionate, communication, 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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.»
«Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother»

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