Quotes About Ostentation

dizer quantos autores temos lido, o quanto somos familiarizados com os escolásticos, quão linguisticamente críticos nós somos ou coisa semelhante. É uma miserável ostentação".

I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. And so you like this man's sisters, too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his.

No hay nada más engañoso que la apariencia de la humildad. A menudo sólo es carencia de opinión, y a veces una ostentación indirecta.

They got stuff here that I didn't even know existed. Everything's spandex and sequins. It's a retired ho's dream come true.

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

quand elle est en grande toilette, on dirait l'édition de luxe d'un mauvais roman français.

The waving of crooked, false-jeweled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.

affectation.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

They are the affectation of affectation.

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming—all the effects a certain class of people produce so as to look like people of a certain class. And his place looked so much like the others that it would never have been noticed, though it all seemed quite exceptional to him.

In reality it was just what is usually seen in the houses of people of moderate means who want to appear rich, and therefore succeed only in resembling others like themselves: there are damasks, dark wood, plants, rugs, and dull and polished bronzes -- all the things people of a certain class have in order to resemble other people of that class. His house was so like the others that it would never have been noticed, but to him it all seemed to be quite exceptional.

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.

Just as wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but by the secret circulation of speculative capital, so war is not measured by being waged but by its speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic and informational space, the same space in which capital moves.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

The mansion and its furnishings cost nine million dollars—the equivalent of more than 150 million dollars today. "Extravagance and ostentation marked every social gathering" at Marble House, the New York Times observed, and "the jewels worn at balls were valued in the millions of dollars.