Effeminacy Quotes

#1. I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

Kingsley Amis

#3. Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that you yourself are subject to the same and greater sins and passions, pray for them and be meek with them.

John Of Kronstadt

#4. Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

Camille Paglia

#5. There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

Mason Cooley

#7. So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Jeremy Taylor

#8. Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

John Adams

#9. Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Francis Quarles

#10. Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

George Lucas

#12. They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Giacomo Casanova

#13. [Asiaticus responds] Ask your sons, Suillius. They will testify to my masculinity.

Tacitus

#14. We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Queen Elizabeth II

#15. To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

Jean De La Bruyere

#16. Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

A.E. Housman