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I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need. -- Mila Kunis
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. -- George S. Patton
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -- Albert Einstein
There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth. -- Glenn Close
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. -- Imelda Marcos
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
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. -- Adam Gopnik
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.... -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. -- Joshua Reynolds
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. -- Mark Twain
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. -- James A. Baldwin
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity. -- Jane Porter
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. -- Charles Spurgeon
I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it. -- Philippe Falardeau
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God? -- Kabir
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge. -- Roger Bacon
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 ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer. -- Paul Billheimer
The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it? -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream. -- Simon de Pury
Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display. -- Marcus Aurelius
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. -- 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 and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre -- Samuel Johnson
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 in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns. -- Neill Blomkamp
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. -- Giles Gilbert Scott
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 spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. -- Roger Deakins
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white. -- Annabelle Selldorf
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything. -- Charles Saatchi
The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business. -- Robert Jordan
I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious. -- Don Roff
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams -- David McCullough
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 of Addison. -- Samuel Johnson
The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen. -- Lester Bangs

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