Quotes About Affectation

This, once almost an endearing habit, is now an affectation that drives me to the brink of homicide.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.

For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation! But these aren't the kinds of people who provide good memoir material. Imagine the jacket copy: People behaved mostly well and then they died.

For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation! But these aren't the kinds of people who provide good memoir material.

Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.

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

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

I can think of two very good reasons for not splitting an infinitive. 1. Because you feel that the rules of English ought to conform to the grammatical precepts of a language that died a thousand years ago. 2. Because you wish to cling to a pointless affectation of usage that is without the support of any recognized authority of the last 200 years, even at the cost of composing sentences that are ambiguous, inelegant, and patently contorted.

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

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.

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

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

It often happens that in situations of unrestraint, where there is no thought of the eye of criticism, real feeling glides into a mode of manifestation not easily distinguishable from rodomontade. A veneer of affectation overlies a bulk of truth, with the evil consequence, if perceived, that the substance is estimated by the superficies, and the whole rejected.

This paraphrase not only sounds rationalistic but is meant to be so, for despite every effort the modern mind no longer understands our two-thousand-year-old theological language unless it "accords with reason." As a result, the danger that lack of understanding will be replaced by lip-service, affectation, and forced belief or else by resignation and indifference has long since come to pass.

Lord Dorwin took snuff. He also had long hair, curled intricately and, quite obviously, artificially, to which were added a pair of fluffy, blond sideburns, which he fondled affectionately. Then, too, he spoke in overprecise statements and left out all the r's.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.