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- 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… — William Hazlitt
- There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does… — Al-Ghazali
- 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
- The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann
- Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness… — 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… — Ludwig Feuerbach
- Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — 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,… — 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… — William Penn