ostentatious behavior Quotes

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

The Loudest person in the room, is usually the brokest

I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.'

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.