Die of a rose in aromatic pain. [ Pope ]

Affectation is the product of false hood. [ Carlyle ]

On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and for show. [ Pope ]

Youth isn't an affectation. Youth is an art. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. [ Lamb ]

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. [ Haliburton ]

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. [ St. Evremond ]

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body. [ Hazlitt ]

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. [ Horace Mann ]

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affectation of the fine gentleman. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar. [ Whately ]

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich. [ Lavater ]

There is no affectation in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts. [ Bacon ]

We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation. [ Feltham ]

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. [ Goldsmith ]

The affectation of virtue which characterizes this century would be very ludicrous, if it were not very tiresome. [ T. Gautier ]

I have tried merely to express what I had to say with as much simplicity and as little affectation as I could command. [ James A. Froude, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. [ Macaulay ]

There is among men such intense affectation that they often boast of defects which they have not, more willingly than of qualities which they have. [ George Sand ]

Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us be taken notice of either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity. [ Locke ]

Simple nature, however defective, is better than the least objectionable affectation; and, defects for defects, those which are natural are more bearable than affected virtues. [ Saint-Evremond ]

In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. [ Lord Herbert ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The main thing in writing is to have distinct, and clear, and well-marshalled ideas, and then to express them simply and without affectation. This forms what we may call the bones of a good style. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affectation. [ Fielding ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]

The unaffected of every country nearly resemble each other, and a page of our Confucius and your Tillotson have scarce any material difference. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. [ Goldsmith ]