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I don't like affectation. — Martin Freeman

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation — Henry Fielding

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

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust. — William Cowper

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

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar. — Richard Whately

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

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation. — Maya Angelou

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

Damoclean, but these were people without pretense or affectation, — John Cheever

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. — John Lancaster Spalding

Speak both in the senate and to every man, whoever he may be, appropriately, not with any affectation: use plain discourse. — Various

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 it
else 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

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. — Fanny Brice

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation. — Vaslav Nijinsky

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. — Robert Blair

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire

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 thought
that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know! — Thomas Hardy

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. — Jaron Lanier

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

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. — Horace Mann

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with. — Simon Munnery

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security. — Terry Wogan

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. — Stephen King

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. — John Locke

Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be. — Stanislaw Leszczynski