Affectation Quotes

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

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Modesty
  • Affectation

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • For Her

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Learned
  • Conversation
  • Profession

• If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Affectation
  • Conceals

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Genuine
  • Imitation
  • Affectation

• A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Manner

• I have no affectation when I speak.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Speak
  • Have
  • Affectation

• 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?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Piece
  • Whiskers

• 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.

  

  Bill Roorbach
  • Character
  • Style
  • Teacher

• There is no little vigour and force added to words, when they are delivered in a neat and fine way, and somewhat out of the ordinary road, common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman. But herein also 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.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  • Language
  • Force
  • Clown