| Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.Author: Sir William Penn |
| Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin |
| The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.Author: 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.Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.Author: Seneca |
| An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.Author: Joseph Addison |
