Affectation Quotes

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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. — Lord Chesterfield
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou
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… — Francesca Annis
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they… — William Hazlitt
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a… — Samuel Johnson
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. — Jacques Barzun
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… — Muriel Barbery
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
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. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli
I have no affectation when I speak — Lisa Kudrow
The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy,… — Andre Comte-Sponville
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. — Jacques Barzun
You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow I'll put on… — James Autry
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things;… — Giuseppe Verdi

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