Quotes About Boasting

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things,

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

For the white man, his guilt was his biggest badge of accomplishment. Only whites killed the planet with global warming so only whites could save it. Their boasting never let up.

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.

So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent;

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped in his

Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself — I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not!

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.

Less than two years after its founding, our Republic inflicted an ignominious defeat on the United States that had been boasting of being the 'strongest' in the world, thus defending its national sovereignty and global peace and security.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

I'm not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I'm a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.