In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.
Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
I certainly don't have any airs about myself.
Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.
Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.
. . . why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
I frankly don't think there's anybody else in media that understands Trump any better than I do. And I say that with no braggadocio. I say that with no airs of anything. I just factually believe it to be the case.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
Toyish airs please trivial ears.
Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.
Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
