#ostentation

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. ↗

— John Locke

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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

#commitment #more #nobility #ostentation #rather

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ↗

— William Penn

#end #few #ostentation #plainly #properly

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bounty #given #ostentation #pride #rather

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#hypocrisy #ostentation #signal

She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation. ↗

— Ford Madox Ford

#family

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #i think #incredibly #like #marriage