reciprocal affection Quotes

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

I love the fans. I hope they love me back.

The reaction I get from my fans is they love me, and I love them back.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.

Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.