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 humour of a scholar.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

- Sir George Etherege
  Letter to Mr Poley,12  Jan.

   Your virtue is your greatest affectation.

-William Wycherley
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.