Affectation

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.

- George Gordon Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Lord Chesterfield Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

- Francesca Annis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have no affectation when I speak.

- Lisa Kudrow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

- Jean Baudrillard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Josh Billings Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

- Charles Cooley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than affectations

- Rex Harrison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery ... once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

- Rex Harrison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

- Lord Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

- Henry Fielding Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Affectation is certain deformity by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

- Robert Blair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

- Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A voice coach and a linguistics expert had interesting things to say, but, really, this was a good excuse to listen to some delicious voices and marvel at how Tony Blair so blatantly panders to the working classes with his erratic glottal stopping. I have no repeatable thoughts about Blair as a voice, ... It seems to me he is a man of extraordinary affectation.

- Brian Sewell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

- William Hazlitt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

- William Hazlitt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

- Henry Fielding Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

- Bil Keane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

- Charles Gates Dawes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

- Samuel Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

- Woody Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes