Choices Quote by Samuel Johnson

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

— Joseph Hall

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the…

— Camille Paglia

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of…

— Henry Mackenzie

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

— Alexander Pope

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

— William Shakespeare

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

— Anonymous

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no…

— Michel de Montaigne

“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal…

— Horace Mann

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

— William Penn

When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of…

— William Wilberforce