Affectation Quotes

54 quotes by 48 authors

Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company… — Saint Francis de Sales
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned… — William Shakespeare
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater
All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that… — Russell Brand
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely… — Henry Fielding
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation… — Charles G. Dawes
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. — Horace Mann
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary… — Ambrose
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. — Henry Fielding
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. — Jacques Barzun
Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic… — Rex Harrison
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free… — Henry Fuseli
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. — Jaron Lanier
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from… — Baldassare Castiglione
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation — Henry Fielding
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment… — John Ruskin
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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