Quotes About Ostentation

Those who are trying to impress others must puff themselves up.

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Let us simply recall the wish to appear natural and forthcoming, the instinctive movement to conceal a secret lovers' meeting, a mixture of modesty and ostentation, the need to speak of what is so pleasant to ourselves and to show that we are loved, a partial understanding of what the other person already knows, or guesses, which, outrunning or falling short of his understanding, constantly over- or under-estimates it, the involuntary drive to take risks or to cut one's losses.

Let them eat cake.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a neighboring sleeve. Young men's hands, with costly cuff links and the slimmest of watches, waved languorously at wine buckets and

Compró suntuosos trajes, que suscitarán la risa de las próximas generaciones, y que, por el momento, difundían su superioridad sobre el vulgo que no dispone de medios para exhibir tan pésimo gusto con tan natural ostentación.

The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus

I know you're picturing gold candlesticks and infinity pools, but this place they made isn't decadent, no, it's rustic in the way only a rich person's place can be, with money flowing under it invisibly, so that they get to pretend they're just like the rest of us.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

Every belt buckle must be gold, every drape silver, every veil like gossamer.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please