Ostentatiously Quotes

#1. It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Rose Kennedy

#3. None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

Tacitus

#4. Phoneless Cord in his stocking, ostentatiously packaged,

David Foster Wallace

#5. Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

#6. None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
[Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Tacitus

#7. Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

Susan Glaspell

#8. For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Rick Perlstein

#9. The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Niklas Luhmann

#10. LADY BRACKNELL
Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Oscar Wilde

#11. No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults ...

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#13. Glanced ostentatiously at my bangle. Blood alcohol content .01%, heart rate leveling off at 72 beats per minute, time 11:42 p.m.

Elizabeth Bear

#14. He was sitting in front of the kitchen fire, and after Elizabeth's taunt he cocked up a hind leg and carefully, ostentatiously, groomed his private parts, a habit which he often used with great effect to annoy his women folk.

Olaf Stapledon

#15. When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

Joseph J. Ellis

#16. He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice. "I'm not saying that to be cruel and insulting," he continued with cruel and insulting delight.

Joseph Heller

#17. bent ostentatiously to her work.

Gregory Maguire

#18. Both black and gleaming, ostentatiously so. I was acutely aware of our luggage piling up on the platform, matching and initialed and gleaming with comfortable wealth. I couldn't help but

Melanie Benjamin

#19. The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#20. Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#21. Whole time. Partway through the night he began to keep so ostentatiously

Isobelle Carmody

#22. Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

Gautama Buddha

#23. We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

Barack Obama

#24. When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.

Amin Maalouf

#25. Anyone can fall in love, but only those who love generously can feel the pain through love as 'purifying fire' ...

Emma Brynstein

#26. But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

#27. There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.

Graham Greene

#28. She's dead. She's dead.

Karen Russell

#29. It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this ... you are already there.

Carl Henegan