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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. (Affectation Quotes)
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. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out (Affectation Quotes)
Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation (Affectation Quotes)
Affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality.... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will (Affectation Quotes)
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn (Affectation Quotes)
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 (Affectation Quotes)
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault (Affectation Quotes)
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 (Affectation Quotes)
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation (Affectation Quotes)
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 (Affectation Quotes)
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art (Affectation Quotes)
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply can’t words is the most ruinous corruption in any language (Affectation Quotes)
It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease (Affectation Quotes)
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar (Affectation Quotes)
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn’t just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health (Affectation Quotes)
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none (Affectation Quotes)
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood (Affectation Quotes)
Must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the affectation of an archaic (Affectation Quotes)
Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affectation of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent (Affectation Quotes)
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs (Affectation Quotes)
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 (Affectation Quotes)
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors (Affectation Quotes)
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural (Affectation Quotes)
Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to see our defects, and never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting sense or sincerity (Affectation Quotes)
Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices - the vices of affectation and common lying (Affectation Quotes)
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small pox (Affectation Quotes)
It has been from age to age an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner (Affectation Quotes)
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 (Affectation Quotes)
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much (Affectation Quotes)
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 Quotes)