"I have no affectation when I speak" — Lisa Kudrow

More Affectation Quotes

This quote is filed under Affectation Quotes, one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with… — Jean Baudrillard
• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts… — Josh Billings
• Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. — Lord Chesterfield
• Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou
• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker.… — Francesca Annis
• The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs… — William Hazlitt
• Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain,… — Samuel Johnson
• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
• Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. — Jacques Barzun
• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like… — Muriel Barbery
• When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style… — Bill Roorbach
• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation… — Charles Horton Cooley

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