Big words Quote by Don Roff

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

— Jane Porter

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

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