"If young women were not deceived into a……" — Maria Edgeworth
"If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much."
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Maria Edgeworth
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24 Quotes by Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth has 24 quotes on this site.
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and…
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon…
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Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call…
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The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence…
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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance,…
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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More Affectation Quotes
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one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with…
— Jean Baudrillard
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts…
— Josh Billings
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
— Maya Angelou
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker.…
— Francesca Annis
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
— William Hazlitt
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
— Oscar Wilde
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
— Jacques Barzun
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
— Muriel Barbery
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style…
— Bill Roorbach
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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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