Nothing is little to him that feels it with great…

I know you are only gone for a little while, but it feels like an eternity

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

— John Bulwer

“I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such…

— Samuel Johnson

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the…

— Samuel Johnson

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

— David McCullough

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Don Roff

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

— Imelda Marcos

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

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

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

— Anonymous

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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