Quotes about Affectation

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with. 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. How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself. Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is. Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be. Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar. affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will. A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour. He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation. 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. I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won. All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich I have no affectation when I speak The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ... I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. 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. If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.