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«The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim»
Author: Henry Fielding (Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: affectation, affectations, coquette, coquettes, governed, whim
«Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Affectation, Laughter | Keywords: affectations, trying on
«Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins»
Author: Horace Mann | About: Charity | Keywords: affectation, affectations, hides, three times
«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.»
Author: Fanny Brice (Actress, Comedian, Singer) | About: Affectation | Keywords: affectation, affectations, good word
«There is a pleasure in affecting affectation»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: affectation, affectations
«Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox»
Author: English Proverb | About: Affectation | Keywords: affectation, affectations, smallpox
«All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater (Theologian) | About: Poverty | Keywords: affectation, affectations
«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.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: affectation, affectations, by no means, earthquake, earthquakes, eruption, lava, prevents, rank, scale
«It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: affectation, affectations
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Conversation | Keywords: affectation, affectations, indecencies, indecency, novel, scurrility, wittiest, witty
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