Affect

Famous quotes containing the word affect:

“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch’s brow.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body it might
be worth reading in this weather.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“People have no concern over things that do not affect themselves.”
—Chinese proverb.