Effete Corps Quotes

#1. 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 snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro T. Agnew

#2. On a casual day, I'd usually pull out my vintage Levi's, a pair of loafers or beat-up Converse, a bomber jacket, and a button-down shirt.

Bella Hadid

#3. Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

George Brett

#4. We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

Jimmy Carl Black

#6. Why does sin feel so good if it is a terrible thing?

Amy Jarecki

#7. A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

Jeff Cooper

#8. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia

#9. What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

Jim Thompson