The most effective coquetry is innocence. [ Lamartine ]

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. [ Thackeray ]

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]

There is nothing in words and styles but suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. [ Glanvill ]

It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks. [ Whipple ]

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. [ Dr. Watts ]

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (President Snow) ]

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. [ E. Burritt ]

Burke's sentences are pointed at the end, instinct with pungent sense to the last syllable. They are like a charioteer's whip, which not only has a long and effective lash, but cracks and inflicts a still smarter sensation at the end. [ John Foster ]