Quotes About Boastfulness

You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

I'm the best person ever to have a column in this business. There's never been anybody in my league.

What a goddamn egomaniac. King Bullet is one prancing show pony show-off.

Splendor'? What an asshole."     *

Toad] got so puffed up with conceit that he made up a song as he walked in praise of himself, and sang it at the top of his voice, though there was no one to hear it but him. It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

Vanity is of no value

Size me up and get goosebumps, boys. I'm the widowmaker and the slayer of jungles, the mean-eyed harbinger of desolation! I've ripped a catamount asunder and sprinkled his fragments in my stew; one screech from me makes vultures fly, one glance puts blisters on grizzly bears, devastation rides on my every breath! Where is that stately stag to stamp his hoof or rap his antlers to these proclamations! Where is the mangy lion what will lick the salt off my name!

A person who says something good and shows own face alongside it, means nothing good for others but just seeks praise for oneself from the people.

There is nothing so irritating as the man who is always coming in and informing all and sundry that he has repaired his sledge, or built a wall, or filled the cooker, or mended his socks.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

ostentatiously

He himself was one of your noisy roisterers, for whom life holds no greater pleasures than wine and bought women. Outside these two poles of existence, he understood nothing. Braggart, brawler, contemptuous of every living person, he despised the whole world from the heights of his ignorance.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

You dog!" she said, so loud that half the crowded tavern turned to watch. "A few days past the walls of the inner keep and you think your pizzle has turned to solid silver? At least when Nevin Hewney falls asleep on top of a girl, drooling and farting and limp as custard, he doesn't pretend he's done her a favor.

I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.

Arrogance is incurable.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.