Kindlehighlight Quote by Jane Austen

“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.”

— Jane Austen

“I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies…

— Jane Austen

“is an account, in other words, of how a problematic valorization of powerlessness as “good” can easily emerge from the same situation of “withheld…

— Sianne Ngai

“Do not make the others criticize your actions, at least affectation good”

— Mohamed Wagdi

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

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant…

— Laurence Sterne

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

— Thomas Jefferson

“I am often drawn to unlikable characters, to those who behave in socially unacceptable ways, say whatever is on their mind, and do what…

— Roxane Gay

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

“Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.”

— Steven Wood Collins

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with every phrase.”

— Calvin Niles