Quotes about Affectation

And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he [my father] used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.