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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

I don't like affectation.

— Martin Freeman

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be…

— Samuel Johnson

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause;…

— Henry Fielding

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

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

— Aleister Crowley

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

— Italo Calvino

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

— John Locke

Falsehood falsehood cures

— William Shakespeare