Affectation Quotes
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Affectation Quotes & Sayings
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I don't like affectation.
— Martin Freeman
Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I have no affectation when I speak.
— Lisa Kudrow
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Artlessness will never do in love matters; and that girl is born a simpleton who has it either by nature or affectation.
— Jane Austen
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
— Maya Angelou
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
— Abraham Lincoln
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
— Oscar Wilde
Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
— Andrew Rosenthal
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
— Maya Angelou
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
— Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
— Francesca Annis
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
— Aphra Behn
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
— Jean Baudrillard
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
— Henry Fielding
Affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
— Lydia M. Child
Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
— William Hazlitt
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
— Lord Chesterfield
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
— Owen Feltham
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
— Jacques Barzun
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
— Thomas Carlyle
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
— Richard Steele
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
— Benjamin Franklin
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to itelse it is none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
— Josh Billings
They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.
— Vaslav Nijinsky
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
— Ellen Glasgow
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
— Dave Eggers
I have sometimes thoughtthat under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know! — Thomas Hardy
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
— Charles Lamb
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
— Samuel Johnson
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.
— Frances Power Cobbe
I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.
— Simon Munnery
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
— Maria Edgeworth
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski