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I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

— Dorothea Dix

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

— Joey Lauren Adams

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.

— Grimes

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis

I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about whether it's supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.

— Ann Leckie

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

— Charles Comiskey

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.

— Lesley Nicol

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

— Heather Graham

✗Opposing Perspectives

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

— Blake Lively

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

— Christine Baranski

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.

— China Mieville