Affectation Quotes
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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion it is the lava of the imagination, whose eruption prevents an earthquake
lord byron— Letter to Annabella Milbanke (29 November 1813).
His writings, like his actions, were faulty, violent, a little morbid even, and abnormal. He was not, and did not attempt to be, an average man. But actions and writings alike, in their strangeness and aloofness, were unadulterated by a tinge of affectation.
john donne— Edmund Gosse, The Life and Letters of John Donne (1899)
affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
horace mann— Horace Mann, Thoughts (1867).
affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
horace mann— Horace Mann, Thoughts (1867).
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— 1688 Letter to Mr Poley,12 Jan.
Your virtue is your greatest affectation.
william wycherley— 1675 The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.
[...] for the Doctor observed, that no man takes upon himself small blemishes without supposing that great abilities are attributed to him; and that, in short, this affectation of candour or modesty was but another kind of indirect self-praise, and had its foundation in vanity.
james boswell— (30 November 1784)
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation
Henry Fielding— Author's Preface
They are the affectation of affectation.
Henry Fielding— Book III, Ch. 3
The thing is plain. All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
william hazlitt— "On the Ignorance of the Learned"
Indeed some degree of affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
william hazlitt— "On Cant and Hypocrisy" (London Weekly Review, 1828-12-06)
He is highly emotional. It is not an affectation. His emotions are very close to the surface and are there in the depth of colour he uses in his paintings.
howard hodgkin— Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, as quoted in "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin" by Karen Wright, in The Telegraph (5 April 2008)
To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
horace walpole— Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1776-05-27).
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
john lancaster spalding— p. 163 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education , An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto IV, Stanza 87
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. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 20 (May 26, 1750).
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 pretence.
— Henry Fuseli, Aphorism 45, in The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831) Vol. III, edited by John Knowles.
...and the best philosophy , to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation .
— Horace Walpole, in Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ..., p.275
affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
horace mann— p. 214 (Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872))
affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
john locke— John Locke, On Education, Section 66, Affectation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 11.
There affectation, with a sickly mien,Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto 4.
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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— F 149 (Notebook F (1776-1779))
affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
john locke— John Locke, On Education, Section 66, Affectation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 11.
There affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto 4.
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 406
