“The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me a lot. It appears that they are making fun of our commitment to the poor.”
Sonia Gandhi
“The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf”
Mark Twain
“It's very delicate, not ostentatious, because the diamonds are so small.”
Marilyn Oliveira
“The actors memorize the sonnets and deliver them usually in an ostentatious manner. As big and proud as possible. There's lots of prancing around.”
Nathan Anderith
“Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential...”
William Thomas
“Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.”
Leonard L. Levinson
“Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans”
Friedrich Nietzsche
