Quotes with ostentation

  • 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.

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  • Seneca That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Locke Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • William Hutton The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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  • William Hazlitt 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
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero 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, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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