Quotes About Bragging

So you're reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It's like having feet. It's nothing to brag about.

The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one's traveling companions are too busy bragging to help out, and Violet was trying to think of a way they might move the boat faster.

As outrageously counter-intuitive as this might seem, the most hardened terrorists and criminals are often extremely willing to brag about the terrible things they've done, the unlikely places that they have been hiding, the important people that they know and deal with, and the plans they have been working on for the future.

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.

One thing about bowl games for me is that big time programs might rank higher, but I love the regional match ups. The bragging rights are on the line.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I'm not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I'm just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I'd like to cut your chest open." The crowd cheers.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

He even pursued the story of a four-year-old girl who bragged that her father, a Jewish merchant of herculean physical stature, had thrown Winter to the ground, killed him, and cut and carved him up; the family, the girl said, then sat around the dinner table and ate him.57

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

Queen Scarlet took the dragonets." "Yes," said Nautilus drily. "We gathered that much from how she's practically been standing on the tallest mountain shouting, 'I have the dragonets of destiny! They're all mine!

I did not kill twenty dragons. Maybe two. On two separate occasions, and I had to.

przecie my Swoje wychwala? musiemy, bo nas zjedz?!

I cannot share my secrets with her, even to brag. And I admit that I desperately want to brag.

I've earned some decent money, and bragging rights, and boxed on a Floyd Mayweather undercard in Vegas... but it's a fraction of what I set out to do.

I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.

Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.

I was 270 lbs with a 48-inch vertical, benching 500 pounds, running a 4.5, 4.6.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Sometimes you have to toot your own horn because nobody else is going to do it.

You are just landmark stupid, aren't you? Has Guinness called yet about that world record?

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.