Known Quote by Stanisław I Leszczyński

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Lydia M. Child

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

— John Locke

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

— Richard Whately

I don't like affectation.

— Martin Freeman

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: To produce a change in Effect: Something that is produced, a result or consequence”

— Jenny Baranick

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

“In an equally counterintuitive fashion, affect’s distinctive function of amplifying the awareness and effects of other functions is based on its ability to “simulate”…

— Sianne Ngai