Quotes About Bragging

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

If all that boasting doesn't tire you out, nothing will!' -- Peter Parker

If I was as half as good as I was. I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be.

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

I don't like to toot my own horn, but 'toot-toot.' I'm a lyricist f'real.

I've always bragged that I fought some guys in the Hall of Fame, legends like B.J. Penn and Matt Hughes and they always knew they were in a fight, but now I'm in there, so I can't even use that line.

All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It's bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways.

but he boasted about the buildings as if they were his own design.

Well, so you don't get too cocky, I myself often complete the TV Guide crossword puzzle." He puffed out his chest. "In pen.

Man I can't even count all of these hundreds Duffle bag every time I go to SunTrust

You couldn't catch greencough!" Poppypaw taunted him. "Yes, I could!" Foxpaw argued. The other apprentices purred with amusement.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn't mean it to. If she could, she'd let him bear her secret. She'd let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they'd remember how it feels to be inhabited.

Growing up, of course I was the coolest girl in the 3rd grade because I told everyone that my dad was a wrestler, and I would bring in these wrestling magazines of him, and every Saturday morning, he would be body slamming me on my bed.

Whitman, for example, self-published (and typeset!) Leaves of Grass. Self-publishing could change from stigma to bragging point—maybe we could change the term to "artisanal publishing" and foster the image of authors lovingly crafting their books with total control over the process.

They are brothers to the fox who boasted that he had made the hounds run....

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

I want you to steal something. I smiled. Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you. If I were you, said the magus, I'd stop bragging about that. His voice grated. My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.