Effeteness Quotes & Sayings

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 being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm. — Jennifer Egan

It was like meeting someone exceptional while you were married: the yank of possibility, the realization that here was another path your life could have taken. — Marcus Sakey

Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation. — Ralph Ellison

Life was a little like that, I guess. We'd spend so long chasing after something already in motion, always out of reach and calling, just ahead. — Mackenzie Herbert

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion. — Marv Albert

When My Love Comes Back from the Ladies' Room, Will I Be Too Old To Care? — Lewis Grizzard