Famous quotes containing the word affect:
“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes;
Though it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause and aves vehement;
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does affect it.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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