Quotes about Bragging
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
— Martin Luther
no one finds a braggart wise. And once I no longer thought of listening as "waiting to talk," I began to have more meaningful conversations.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
— Psalm 94:4
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
There are two types of people. People who have accomplished things and people who have claimed to accomplish things. The first group is less crowded.
— Mark Twain
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
— Dorothy Sayers