Quotes About Showiness

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It's the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner; and the vocals of Alanis.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

ostentatiously

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Those who shouldn't are often those who most willingly flaunt it.

The art of making much show with little substance.

I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

affectation.

Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings set neatly and clothes handsomely.

They are the affectation of affectation.