Pastoral Resources

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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

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

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.

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

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

I have no affectation when I speak.

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.

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.