Affectation Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name
1	Affectation is certain deformity. By forming themselves on fantastic models the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.	Blair	Tony
2	Avoid all singularity and affectation. What is according to nature is best, while what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.	Collier
3	Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections can only be fixed and retained by those that are real.	De Moy
4	Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.	Evremond	Seigneur de
5	Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters to gain applause, so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to avoid censures by concealing your vices under the appearance for their opposite virtues.	Fielding	Henry
6	Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, and smaller faults of our pity, but the affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.	Fielding	Henry
7	Paltry affectation and strained allusions are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; but they are but the badges of ignorance or stupidity when it would endeavor to please.	Goldsmith	Oliver
8	Affectation differs from hypocrisy in being the art of counterfeiting qualities which we might with innocence and safety be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, a part of the chosen trappings of folly.	Johnson
9	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
10	Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellencies which are farthest from our attainment, because knowing our defects we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.	Johnson

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