The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their…

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of…

— Simon de Pury

The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names!…

— Jonathan Stroud

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

— Anonymous

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as…

— Michel Foucault

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

— Imelda Marcos

“I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.”

— Don Roff

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

— Mark Twain

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

— David McCullough

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

— Jane Porter

The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it…

— Lester Bangs

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I…

— Adam Gopnik

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

— Samuel Johnson

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine…

— Giles Gilbert Scott