Quotes About Boasting

He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.

I want to be the first one to say I beat both Diaz brothers.

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

It was a rare case of Rockefeller boasting about his wealth, but it was clearly meant to lift public morale.

Being financially secure is truly a life-enhancer; it sweetly oils the wheels of life. But remember: to talk of money, the excess of it or the lack of it, is vulgar to the extreme. One either boasts or whines, and neither makes for good conversation.

They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter, and all is forgotten.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

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?

But if you have never loved, what right have you to boast that you've suffered?

To no class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera-box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king's ransom in his waistcoat pocket.

I suppose some men just love the sound of their own voices.

Selling yourself does not mean boasting about your accomplishments but rather demonstrating security in your goals and your lifestyle so your "customers" feel success and want to emulate it

By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.

It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Tis easy to see they're not used to having anything the way the brag about everything.

When push came to shove, the yacht kids were just too WASP for him. He was a jewel of Kazakh youth, he liked to say—studied history so he could boast about Mongolian hordes. He'd mailed a cheek swab to some genetic-testing service, and the results suggested he was Genghis Khan's nephew. Some generations removed. But basically, yeah, he said.

So much are the modes of excellence settled by time and place, that men may be heard boasting in one street of that which they would anxiously conceal in another.