Affectation Quote by Martin Freeman

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

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 fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

— Lydia M. Child

Affectations can be dangerous.

— Gertrude Stein

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 is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

— Robert Blair

“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

Emotions are things you can't get rid of, no matter how hard you try

— Anonymous

I don't fight my emotions.

— Richa Chadha