Appearance Quote by Henry Fielding

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

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of…

— Anonymous

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

These courtiers of applause deny themselves things convenient to flaunt it out; being frequently enough vain to immolate their own desires to their vanity.

— Robert Boyle

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

— John Locke

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

— Grover Norquist

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have…

— Blaise Pascal

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

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

— Robert Blair