Quotes

Quotes about Ostentation

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton

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

William Seneca

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton

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.

William Cicero