Affectation Quotes

“No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.”

“Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.”

“Affectation hides three times as many virtues as Charity does sins.”

“All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.”

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“There Affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.”

“An English wit has well said that affectation displeases us because it has not too much, but too little, art.”

“Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.”