Ostentation Quotes

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. - Mark Twain

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

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Rare qualities may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages; and though a needless ostentation of ones excellencies may be more glorious, a modest concealment of them is usually more safe; and an unseasonable disclosure of flashes of wit may sometimes do a man no other service than to direct his adversaries how they may do him a mischief. - Robert Boyle

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. - Riccardo Muti

Luxury and ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout. - Stephan Jenkins