Quotes About Ostentatious

Yes, that's what made my mother angry, no doubt about it. The ostentatious virility.

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.

It's a little underwhelming," Reese muttered to Irine once they'd both made it up. "I don't know." The tigraine swept her gaze over the narrow, craggy cave. "I think it looks just right for a secret entrance. Not too ostentatious or anything." Reese

My cairns were obvious, pretentious, rococo.

They'd like the world to think they're hot snot on a gold platter. But really, they're just cold boogers on a paper plate.

these days, we are constantly dealing with strangers who know nothing of our identity, qualities and defects, so it is tempting, and sometimes useful, to broadcast as ostentatiously as possible the image of ourselves that we would like to see recognized by those around us.

Probably one of those who ostentatiously carried plastic bags but never stooped to using one.

She was built along the lines of a General Electric refrigerator and looked like a cross between Caligula and a cockatoo. Mother Burnside had beady little eyes, an imperious beak of a nose, sallow skin, and bad breath. She wore a stiff black wig and a stiff black dress and she sat all day long in a darkened drawing room, her pudgy hands - encrusted with dirty diamond rings - folded over her pudgy belly.