Ostentation Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the… — William Hazlitt
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed… — Al-Ghazali
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to… — Horace Mann
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I… — Ludwig Feuerbach
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… — Henry Mackenzie
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti
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… — Joseph Hall
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. — Seneca the Younger
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. — William Penn
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved. — William Shakespeare
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout — Stephan Jenkins
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… — William Hazlitt
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity. — Alexander Pope
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a… — Joyce Cary
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through… — Victoria Finlay
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. — Jenny Eclair

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