#affectation

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

#cannot #commonplace #concealment #however #may

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

#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

The girls were always running out of money, out of cash, precisely, to pay taxi drivers, train conductors, men who delivered pizzas after dark. They borrowed cash, normally, upon arrival. They borrowed passions—Wallace Stevens, Joseph Conrad, Mozart, hiking, the Bible—from each other, as girls of another generation borrowed clothes. ↗

— Renata Adler

#men

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#begin #changes #cultural #end #great

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. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#believe #confess #does #good #himself

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

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

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

— Robert Blair

#begin #being #certain #deformity #end

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#characteristic #governed #whim

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #dress #flaw #implies #mind

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. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#belong #convict #education #forever #got