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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. -- Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous by his absence. -- Tacitus
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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. -- James Reston
Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. -- Nina Easton
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. -- Tim Jackson
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful. -- Tim Gunn
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. -- Walter Bagehot
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. -- Bob Kane
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
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. -- Carl Andre
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb. -- Richard Eyre
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing. -- Bill Bryson
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers. -- John Charles Polanyi
Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money. -- Zooey Deschanel
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. -- Arthur Keith
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans' -- Ann Coulter
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. -- James Buchan
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God. -- Wendy O. Williams
I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior. -- Allen West
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. -- Thorstein Veblen
It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species. -- Andrew H. Knoll
I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those? -- Mel Gibson
Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous. -- Fred Astaire
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. -- James Reston
Do right and you will be conspicuous. -- Mark Twain
Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess. -- Jack Vance
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve. -- Bob Goff
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. -- Napoleon Hill
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead. -- W. H. Auden
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. -- Henry Morton Stanley
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow -- John Gay
In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow. -- John Gay
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence -- Marcus Aurelius
My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous. -- Quentin Crisp
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. -- Allan Bloom
I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short. -- Bess Truman
When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it. -- Vladimir Voinovich
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. -- Arianna Huffington
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy. -- Joseph J. Ellis
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. -- Charles H. Brower
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. -- Alice Meynell
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender -- Juvenal
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous. -- Margaret Atwood
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners -- Barbara Kingsolver
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. -- John Ruskin
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
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. -- Charles Spurgeon
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful. -- Thorstein Veblen
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
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
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
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
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
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap. -- Kathryn Harrison
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
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order. -- Jeremy Bentham
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual. -- Thorstein Veblen
It is clear from both documentary and archaeological sources that conspicuous display and consumption of wealth was fundamental for an elite male to maintain power and position in society. -- Sally Crawford
Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord. -- Emil Kraepelin
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. -- Eric Gill
Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more. -- George Crabbe
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England -- John Stuart Mill
A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. -- Richard Adams
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world. -- Mark Twain
A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him. -- David Ross Locke
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.] -- Juvenal
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey. -- Arthur Koestler
'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans' -- Ann Coulter
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government. -- James Madison
In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought. -- Paul Blanshard
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies. -- Penn Jillette
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor. -- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical. -- Dorothea Dix
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations. -- George Washington
Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful. -- Gigi Graham

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