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Quotes About Boastful

As proud as Lucifer.
~ Philip James Bailey
Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.
~ Lionel Shriver
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." "Do you think it will work?" "I'm sure it will. And let's promote him to captain, too, just to make certain.
~ Joseph Heller
Conceited little megapuppy.
~ Douglas Adams
For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.
~ Akira Toriyama
Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
~ Gary Weiss
The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
~ Muhammad Ali
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That's why good people so rarely rise to power.
~ Rick Riordan
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
DC will always talk. I just found out he just talks. I kind of figured it out. He talks just to hear himself talk. I know he wants to be that guy that's a big time promoter and all this other stuff, but I think he's his own biggest cheerleader and his worst promoter for sure.
~ Anthony Johnson
Depending on who it is, but I can't stand men who brag about themselves, and all they do all day is talk about themselves.
~ Joanna Krupa
Conceited little mega-puppy.
~ Douglas Adams
the personification of philistine triumphalism
~ Salman Rushdie
old age is boastful; and it is pardonable for old men to praise themselves when others no longer do it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Two things we know about Trump is that he boasts about himself often and he doesn't seek the counsel of others. Trump is the very biblical definition of a fool.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag.
~ John Connolly
Bumptious people talk big words only till they are able to show often their face along with it for merely own praise.
~ Anuj Somany
How shall the state be most vigorous? It shall be most vigorous when it is without conflict. How shall it be without conflict? When it is without disagreement. How shall disagreement be banished? By banishing the four causes of disagreement: lies, foolish talk, boastful talk, and talk which serves only to incite quarrels. How shall the four causes be banished? By speaking only Correct Thought.
~ Gene Wolfe
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
~ Samuel Johnson
There can be no self-exaltation, no boastful claim to freedom from sin, on the part of those who walk in the shadow of Calvary's cross. They
~ Ellen G. White
Seneca[1] rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est, the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,-the readier he is with his tongue.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni, N'gorso the Mighty, and the Serpent of Silver Plumes! I have rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak, and Prague. I have spoken with Solomon. I have run with the buffalo fathers of the plains. I have watched over Old Zimbabwe till the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people. I am Bartimaeus!
~ Jonathan Stroud