Quotes About Affectations

#1. Affectations can be dangerous.

Gertrude Stein

#2. Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#5. Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. Then it was something more. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something - most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning - and

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.

Georgette Heyer

#8. A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Hosea Ballou

#9. Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

Sam Harris

#10. This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.

Bernard DeVoto

#11. I feel old films should not be remade.

Ranbir Kapoor

#12. The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Movement implies development and not evolution (C.F.D. Moule)."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#14. It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#15. Me, the girl with no friends, yet who has the heart that wants to save everyone.

Lindy Zart

#16. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

Dave Eggers

#17. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

Julian Fellowes

#18. Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

Seneca.

#19. More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. I've always felt that kids are really smart.

Michelle Trachtenberg