Quotes About Boasting

Al Jolson was my first husband. He always used to boast that he was spoiling me for any man who might come after him. I think Al sensed that it wasn't easy for me being married to an American institution... Was he right about spoiling me? I'm sorry. I couldn't possibly say. I couldn't be that indiscreet.

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it

Clumsy? Why, I've had more women than you, you whelp. Well. Maybe not more than you, but certainly more than Ewan. (Lochlan) That's not saying much. My left boot has had more women than Ewan. (Braden)

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogant words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by Him.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

God hates those who praise themselves.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

And she knew that this one thing—the urge to boast of one's accomplishments—had betrayed more secrets and destroyed more careers than anything else.

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?

I'm boasting of my...skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly, into almost any conversation, proclaiming her insignificance and ignorance, thereby assuring a correction.

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

Occasionally you hear a man boasting how good his credit is, but, as a matter of fact, no man's credit is as good as his money.

We've all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight. It's a terrible sin. If you don't make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn't count.

Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.

He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo.

I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!