Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. — Anonymous 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
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed… — Jean-Baptiste Say 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
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
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every… — William Hazlitt 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
“A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches… — Plutarch 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
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
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish… — Joyce Cary 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
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
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
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 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
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael 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
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
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal… — Ludwig Feuerbach 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
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
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
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn 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
“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that… — Jean Jacques Rousseau 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
