affectation Quotes

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

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

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.

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

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

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

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation,<br /> And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;<br /> In fact, he had no singing education,<br /> An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood

The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a common place mind.

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.