The Vincys lived in an easy profuse way, not with any new ostentation, but according to the family habits and traditions, so that the children had no standard of economy, and the elder ones retained some of their infantine notion that their father might pay for anything if he would.
In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.
() Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
But to be candid without ostentation or design -- to take the good of every body's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad -- belongs to you alone.
() Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
And what works of ostentation are undertaken, because there might seem to be some use of great riches?
Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990 The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
[info][add][mail][note]William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) 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.
Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display ruled, but not the fear of the Lord.