Ostentation Quotes
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Ostentation Quotes & Sayings
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He appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes.
— John Le Carre
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
— Michel De Montaigne
But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury.
— James Oscar Boyd
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.
— William Shakespeare
Let us listen to the voice of the Lord, for He has declared the secret. He
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill
— Theodore Levitt
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
— Alexander Pope
I haven't played a lot of nice guys.
— Michael Douglas
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.
— Charlie Chaplin
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
— William Hutton
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
— Riccardo Muti
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
— Hanya Yanagihara
If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
— Tonya Hurley
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
— William Hazlitt
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
— Jenny Eclair
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
— Samuel Johnson
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout
— Stephan Jenkins
An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.
— Robert Harris
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