Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say…

— Plato

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

“Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Though people in all cultures and eras have felt the same type of pleasures and pains, the meaning they have ascribed to their experiences…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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