Quotes for All
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of … Read more
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition. David McCullough
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrites act by virtue…. They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and … Read more
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein
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 … Read more