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Ostentatious Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes…
More Ostentatious Quotes
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own… — Joseph Addison
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson
- I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way… — Keith O'Brien
- Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. — George S. Patton
- The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything… — Giles Gilbert Scott
- For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
- The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that… — Sonia Gandhi