Accompany Quote by John Locke

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Robert Blair

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

— William Hazlitt

I don't like affectation.

— Martin Freeman

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 naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor…

— Samuel Johnson

“For Massumi, affect is primary, non-conscious, asubjective or presubjective, asignifying, unqualified, and intensive; while emotion is derivative, conscious, qualified, and meaningful, a “content” that…

— Steven Shaviro

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by…

— Antonio Damasio

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

“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

“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

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions.

— Anonymous