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.
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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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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.
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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.
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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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