Ostentation Quotes
Ostentation Quote of the day
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty