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Tag Name "Affectation" (63)

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Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.
Stanisław I Leszczyński
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
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Affectation is certain deformity by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
Robert Blair
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
John Locke
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Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
Aphra Behn
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
William Hazlitt
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All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.
Russell Brand
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.
Samuel Johnson
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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding
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Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.
Samuel Johnson
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
John Lancaster Spalding
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
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All affectation 'tis my perfect scorn Object of my implacable disgust.
William Cowper
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
Kingsley Amis
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To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.
Margaret Fishback
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
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There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach a healthy skepticism. They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes, trained not to think for themselves, will swallow any egregious rot, provided it is dressed up with long words and an affectation of objectivity to make it sound scientific.
Anthony Standen
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