The Object Of My Affection Quotes

#1. I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence.

Mignon Fogarty

#2. In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Ursula's heart tripped and skipped and flipped at the sight of him. The very object of her affection! The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. And here he was! What luck.

Kate Atkinson

#4. Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.

Edward T. Welch

#6. Now the oppa is the object of romantic affection - the manly man, the stud. You

Javabeans

#7. Unless the object of the singer's affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate '-enic' rhymes are hard to come by.

Stephen Sondheim

#8. She remained mute, not knowing that he was smothering his affection for her. She hardly observed that a tear descended slowly upon his cheek, a tear so large that it magnified the pores of the skin over which it rolled, like the object lens of a microscope.

Thomas Hardy

#9. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Mary Shelley

#10. The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Edmund Burke

#12. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;

Jane Austen

#13. True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

Stephen L. Carter

#14. ...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women...

Kate Fox

#15. When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

Jennette McCurdy

#16. Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

#17. We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Charles Spurgeon