Affectation Quotes

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Truth Truth Is Goodness Edge Else Must Some None Affectation Than Your
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. Maya Angelou
Life Drops Soon Learned Affectation Wall Person Against Modest Modest Person Modesty
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. John Ruskin
Truth Only Never Concealment Vulgar Vulgarity However Affectation May Cannot Commonplace Unimportant Painful Whole
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Mind Understanding Dress Implies Affectation Whatsoever Any Flaw
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. Jacques Barzun
Great Changes Affectation Cultural End Begin Routine
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. Henry Fielding
Characteristic Governed Affectation Whim
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security. Terry Wogan
Good Woman Young Manners Good Manners Security Open Mere Likely She Call Affectation Door Regarded Young Woman Used Now
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Zadie Smith
Life People World Mother Black Black And White My Life White Guy Throughout Also Mixed Affectation Short Dad Lives Millions Millions Of People
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Jean Baudrillard
Love Courage Feelings Cowardice Mirrors Never True Without Affectation Nor Measure Play
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. Fanny Brice
Good Word Wish Believe Would Someone He Like Himself None Does Affectation Very Confess Less
I don't like affectation. Martin Freeman
Like Affectation
To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent. Jacob Weisberg
World Wealth Made Thanks Live Dramatic Has-Been Able He Look Himself Around Sound Surgery Affectation Been Michael Michael Jackson Celebrity Child Accurate Jackson Quite Childhood Fantasy Created Help Plastic Describe Plastic Surgery
Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation. Andrew Rosenthal
Bit Kind Affectation Little Little Bit
Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Animal Affectation Refer Any Manner Ignorant Even
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