A Quotes
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“Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...
“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.”
“Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
“Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.”
“affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.”
“Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose to do is going to contribute to one persona or another. People will only call attention to it if it is markedly different from the course you were apparently on before.”
Source: The Rhetoric Companion
“Affectation is the product of falsehood.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“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.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous
“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.”
Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works
“Affectations can be dangerous.”
Source: The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation
“Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.”
“Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.”
“Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.”
“Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.”
“Affection almost slinks or seeps through our lives. It lives with humble un-dress, private things; soft slippers, old clothes, old jokes, the thump of a sleepy dog's tail on the kitchen floor, the sound of a sewing-machine, a gollywog left on the lawn.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Affection, as I have said, is the humblest love. It gives itself no airs.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.”
Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children
“Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.”
“Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.”
“Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.”
Source: On Education
“Affection exaggerates its own offenses.”
“Affection expressed physically made friendship so complete and binding.”
Source: The Lord Won't Mind
“Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“Affection! Her father's thick mutton chops twitched in irritation. Good God child, are we back to that? Those fairy tale thoughts were amusing when you were twelve, now they are downright mortifying. Marriage is an institution--
Rather like one of those asylums for lunatics, she mumbled, unable to help herself.”
Source: Pride & Passion
“Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.”
“Affection is a much profound emotion, which is inexplicable but can be fathomed through our pores. It percolates down our skin slowly.”
“Affection is a sweetness, and it always gives the sweet taste, this is God gifted strength. No one else can change it.”
“Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.”
“Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.”
“Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve,
and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it.”
“Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.”
“Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.”
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Affection is the environment of the marriage, while sex is an event. Affection is a way of life, a canopy that covers and protects a marriage. It's a direct and convincing expression of care that gives the event of sex a more appropriate context. Most women need affection before sex means much to them.”
Source: His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
“Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.”
“Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.”
Source: The Star Scroll
“Affection. Longing. The kind of feelings that made human lives both wonderful and unbearably complicated.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”
Source: Surrender
“Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.”
“Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.”
“Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.”
“Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.”
Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence