Change Quote by Jenny Baranick

“Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.”

— Steven Wood Collins

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.

— Richard Machowicz

“My assumption is that affects are less formed and structured than emotions, but not lacking form or structure altogether; less “sociolinguistically fixed,” but by…

— Sianne Ngai

“Affect is perhaps the most difficult plane of human life to define and describe, not merely because it is a-signifying (and contemporary theory is…

— Sianne Ngai

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

— John Locke

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Tomkins ultimately bases his theory of affect on a principle he calls “analog amplification.” He describes affect as a mechanism that magnifies awareness and…

— Sianne Ngai

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In an equally counterintuitive fashion, affect’s distinctive function of amplifying the awareness and effects of other functions is based on its ability to “simulate”…

— Sianne Ngai

“By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained,…

— Baruch Spinoza

Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński