Ostentatious Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison
The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me… — Sonia Gandhi
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that… — Roger Deakins
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better… — Harriet Martineau
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.... — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures… — Samuel Johnson
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great… — Martha Stewart
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. — James A. Baldwin
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth. — Glenn Close
It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am… — Adam Gopnik
From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the… — Paul Billheimer
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes… — Samuel Johnson
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the… — Charles Caleb Colton
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. — Albert Einstein
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos

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