Top 122 Affectation Quotes & Sayings

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

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

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

I don't like affectation.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

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

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

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.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

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

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

I have no affectation when I speak

I have no affectation when I speak.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

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

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

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

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.