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Affectation is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

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 is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be…

— Samuel Johnson

I don't like affectation.

— Martin Freeman

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause;…

— Henry Fielding

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

“It often happens that in situations of unrestraint, where there is no thought of the eye of criticism, real feeling glides into a mode…

— Thomas Hardy

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

— Horace Mann

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon