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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
— Thorstein Veblen
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
— John Ruskin
I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignore
— Cristina Henriquez
We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
There is nothing to learn about reasoning and invention if the motive and purpose of the most conspicuous step remain incomprehensible.
— George Polya
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.
— W. H. Auden
One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.
— Billy Graham
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.
— Fred Astaire
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
— James Reston
Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.
— Dylan J. Morgan
American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.
— Eugene H. Peterson
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
— Thorstein Veblen
![Conspicuous Quotes By John Russell, 1st Earl Russell: Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/conspicuous-quotes-by-john-russell-1st-earl-russell-1700828.jpg "Conspicuous Quotes By John Russell, 1st Earl Russell: Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's]")
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
— John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
— Charles H. Brower
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
— Charles Dickens
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.
— Margaret Atwood
They're pretty conspicuous.""Why? Are they green and horny?" I willed a blush away and said, "I mean, as in having horns,not ... the other. — Rachel Hawkins
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
— Jack Vance
![Conspicuous Quotes By Allan Bloom: The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/conspicuous-quotes-by-allan-bloom-1709046.jpg "Conspicuous Quotes By Allan Bloom: The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion")
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.
— Allan Bloom
There is the particular additional benefit of conspicuous generosity as a way of buying unfakeably authentic advertising.
— Richard Dawkins
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
— Joseph J. Ellis
garden hoes, there was a small but conspicuous headline.
— Donna Tartt
When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.
— Vladimir Voinovich
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.
— Mark Twain
To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.
— Mortimer J. Adler
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.
— Henry Morton Stanley
Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd.
— Girdhar Joshi
Expensive clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.
— Jeanette Winterson
I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.
— Stephen King
The virtue of humility is conspicuous only in its' absence.
— L.F.Linnenkamp
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
— Barbara Kingsolver
conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us.
— Jacob Lund Fisker
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
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
— Arianna Huffington
Do right and you will be conspicuous.
— Mark Twain
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan
— P.G. Wodehouse
The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Conspicuous by his absence.
— Tacitus
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
— Alice Meynell
