Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“. . . filled with an elegance more chimerical than ostentatious.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it,… — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
