Quotes on Ostentatious

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film — you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.