12 Quotes on Affectation

• 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.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• 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.

  Author: John Ruskin

• I have no affectation when I speak.

  Author: Lisa Kudrow

• The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

  Author: Henry Fielding

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

  Author: Ralph Emerson

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

  Author: Lord Chesterfield

• 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.

  Author: Fanny Brice

• Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

  Author: Robert Blair

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

  Author: Josh Billings

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

  Author: Jean Baudrillard

• Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

  Author: Jacques Barzun

• 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.

  Author: Francesca Annis

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