Following is our list of the most famous effeminate quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational effeminate quotes. Hopefully, these effeminate quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your effeminate knowledge!
I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality. — Grayson Perry
There is a certain androgyny to my appeal. — Ellen Barkin
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. — Susan Sontag
The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor. — Edna Ferber
Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun. — Carolina Herrera
It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong. — Miuccia Prada
Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change — Lil Wayne
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. — Unknown
I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace. — Usher
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny. — Lady Gaga
A woman should soften but not weaken a man. — Sigmund Freud
There aren't any hard women, only soft men. — Raquel Welch
Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage. — Liberace
It's not called being gay, it's called being fabulous! — PewDiePie
Short Effeminate Quotes
There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank. — Greg Giraldo
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. — Edgar Quinet
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. — Little Richard
Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over. — Camille Paglia
I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man. — Quentin Crisp
A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man. — William Shakespeare
The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns — Art Alexakis
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action. — Plato
You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please. — Thomas Morley
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. — Dan Savage
I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours. — Jonathan Meades
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians. — William Prynne
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh. — Alphonsus Liguori
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. — Edmund Burke
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. — Robin Boyd
Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men. — Madonna Ciccone
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. — Thomas Willis
When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am. — Quentin Crisp
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive. — Oscar Wilde
For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. — Charles Spurgeon
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate. — James Gates Percival
You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air. — Walter Scott
I've had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend. If there was an effeminate guy, I was the friend. If there was somebody who was poor like me, I was the friend. — Riccardo Tisci
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag. — Christopher Meloni
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. — Luke Ford
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini! — Kevyn Aucoin
We've gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls "sissies." You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist. — Rush Limbaugh
It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American. — Gene Kelly
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. — Christina Stead
I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea. — William Cobbett
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. — Frederick Lenz
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle. — Jerry Bridges
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. — Karl Philipp Moritz
You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed at the same time every night, get up every morning at the same time? How do you discipline your appetites, how do you discipline your tongue? We're the most weak, effeminate Christianity the world has ever had-no wonder nobody wants it. It has no strength, it has no character — Leonard Ravenhill
I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that? — Kyan Douglas
I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face. — Robert Pattinson
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