Showing Off Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Showing Off". There are currently 259 quotes in our collection about Showing Off. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Showing Off!
The best sayings about Showing Off that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

    Lovely   Robins   World  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.52, GENERAL PRESS
  • Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

    Vegas   Church   Shows  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

  • I am young. I better show off what I have now.

  • When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

    "Victoria Beckham: behind the scenes with the queen of fashion". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2012.
  • I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

    Updates   Wonder   Tweet  
  • I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.

    Yoga   Guru   Groupie  
  • Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

    People   Wealth   Shows  
  • Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  • Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

    Wise   World   Enjoy  
  • It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

    Summer   Time   Memories  
    Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing
  • I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

    Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  • On social media people tend to show off, and post their most attractive picture, and moments that are most likely to give everyone else FOMO (Fear of Missing out). They rarely share the moments when they feel down, or when things have gone wrong and they need support.

    Media   People   Giving  
    "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.
  • I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle.

    Hands   Spoons   Excited  
    "Dane Cook Interview". Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.
  • The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

    Moving   Reality   Blue  
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co
  • I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop

    Fighting   Likes   Shows  
  • Your goal is simple: Finish. Experience your first race, don't race it. Your first race should be slightly longer or slightly faster than your normal run. Run your first race. Later you can race. You will be a hero just for finishing, so don't put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!

    Running   Distance   Hero  
  • There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

    Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
  • When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  • Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

    "'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.
  • He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

    People   Way   Use  
    Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.196, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

    Media   Choir   Used  
    "Channeling" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2009.
  • 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

    Educational   Mean   Men  
  • Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

    "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.
  • I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

  • I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

    Song   Musical   Trying  
Page 1 of 9
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • We hope our collection of Showing Off quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Showing Off is constantly growing (today it includes 259 sayings from famous people about Showing Off), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Showing Off!