Affectedly Quotes

#1. I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Malcolm X

#2. Who loved without any genuine feeling, with superfluous phrases, affectedly, hysterically, with an expression that suggested that it was not love nor passion, but something more significant; ...

Anton Chekhov

#3. (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Elmer Davis

#5. So, throw honor out the window." "Honor," I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival." The

Veronica Roth

#6. What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.

John Green

#8. Disperse the sorrow of my sadden'd mind
O Lord, help me some blessed peace to find!

Timothy Salter

#9. You don't have to be great to start, you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar