Ostentation Quotes
31 Ostentation quotes by 28 unique authors
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Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of…
— Wendell Berry
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When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
— William Wilberforce
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or…
— Denis Diderot
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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation
— Unknown Author
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Rare qualities may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages; and though a needless ostentation of ones excellencies may be more glorious, a modest concealment of…
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Ostentation Quotes
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