This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed;… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
