One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs
Josh Billings
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues
Henry Fielding
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please
Oliver Goldsmith
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly
Samuel Johnson
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
Samuel Johnson
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances
Samuel Johnson
We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it.
John Locke
We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.
Old French Saying
There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen
Alexander Pope
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be
Leszczynski Stanislaus
It is remarkable that great affectation and great absence of it (unconsciousness) are at first sight very similar; they are both apt to produce singularity
Archbishop Richard Whately
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances
Johnson
Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others
Johann Kaspar Lavater