Effete Quotes
- Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
- The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
- The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent… — Spiro T. Agnew
- That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question. — Joseph Epstein
- People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values.… — Kenny Smith
- The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis;… — Kenny Smith
- There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and… — Camille Paglia
- We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are… — Anthony Burgess
- A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread… — Jennifer Egan
- A hidden fire burns perpetually upon the hearth of the world.... In autumn this great conflagration becomes especially manifest. Then the flame that is slowly… — Hugh Macmillan