Quotes: Affectation

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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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.

Fanny Brice

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

Jean Baudrillard

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I have no affectation when I speak.

Lisa Kudrow

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Jacques Barzun

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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield

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Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Robert Blair

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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