Histrionic Quotes

• Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fall, Clueless, Axes

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• In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

  William Dean Howells

  Europe, America, Trying

  William Dean Howells (2015). “THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard of New Fortunes & Their Silver Wedding Journey: From the Author of Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life, The Flight of Pony Baker & Boy Life”, p.842, e-artnow

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• I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

  Dido Armstrong

  Interesting, Singing, Want

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• Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

  Keith Olbermann

  Waiting, Passionate, Stuff

  "Keith Olbermann: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

  Albert Speer

  Intuition, Shapes, Adjusting

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• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Thinking, People, Theatre

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• How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Regret, Memorial

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.69

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

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• My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.

  Willie Morris

  Mother, Growing Up, Emotional

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