Showing Off Quotes

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

I once walked out of a nightclub with my team-mates to see our star midfielder reclining across the bonnet of a Ferrari, arms folded, waiting for girls to come out so he could wink at them and then progress it from there. I have no idea how long he'd been waiting. I do know it wasn't even his Ferrari.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.