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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout -- Stephan Jenkins
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. -- John Locke
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. -- Jenny Eclair
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
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
Unless some other factor is operative, in large, weak and underpopulated states, the luxury of ostentation prevails over that of comfort; but in countries which are more populous than extensive, the luxury of comfort always diminishes ostentation. -- Cesare Beccaria
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity. -- Alexander Pope
The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. -- Joseph Hall
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. -- Francis Bacon
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. -- Michel de Montaigne
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. -- William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt. -- Michel de Montaigne
If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments. -- Sathya Sai Baba
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. -- Michael Swanwick
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all. -- Joseph Hall
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men. -- Henry Mackenzie
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. -- William Hazlitt
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. -- Joseph Hall

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