Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.
Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
