Affectation Quotes
54 quotes by 48 authors
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
— William Shakespeare
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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
— Maria Edgeworth
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Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
— Dave Eggers
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There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and…
— Charles Lamb
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But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can…
— Steve Martin
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Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the…
— Sylvia Brownrigg
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People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the…
— August Bournonville
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
— Maya Angelou
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Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
— Robert Blair
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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is…
— Lord Byron
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox
— English Proverb
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When guys think a girl is cute they'll seek affectation
— Destiny
Who Wrote These Affectation Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 54 Affectation Quotes, led by these top contributors: