OSTENTATION
-
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.—ADDISON
-
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. The charlatan is verbose and assumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious, because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.—E. H. CHAPIN
-
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 theatre for virtue is conscience.—CICERO
-
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature
never pretends.—LAVATER
|
|
|
|
