Artificial Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

“Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.”

— Steven Wood Collins

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

— Lydia M. Child

I don't like affectation.

— Martin Freeman

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now…

— Lewis Mumford

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now…

— Lewis Mumford

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.”

— Mark Manson