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Conspicuous Quotes by Thorstein Veblen
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and…
- With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives…
- English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition…
- The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is…
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- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men… — Bill Bryson
- The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. — Alice Meynell
- Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce… — Walter Russell
- The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest… — James Madison
- One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten
- The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom
- The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith,… — George Washington
- It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has… — Joseph Priestley
- If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to… — Arthur Koestler
- Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous. — Fred Astaire
- Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane