quotations about bragging
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Rambler, Jan. 21, 1752
Bragging is but so much breath lost in good company, and ought to be no more taken notice of than the barking of a little cur in the streets, so long as a man's heels are safe, and the dog does not bite.
ANONYMOUS
The European Magazine and London Review, vol. 79
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation and Empire
The truth is that these braggarts are ignoramuses and impostors. They speak with a self-satisfaction they do not possess within themselves, in order to impose their point of view, and if they do possess it, it is owing to their very ignorance.
FRAY SERVANDO
The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
CRISS JAMI
Killosophy
If the world you wish to know,
Never by its speeches go.
EDWARD JOHN TURNOUR
"The World,", Thoughts in Youth and Age
I, a Laconian dog, can bite again:
Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee,
Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.
HENRY KIRKE WHITE
The Remains of Henry Kirke White
What cure for this, you malt-worm? oh, my soul, How it does blush to know thee! bragging puppy!
JAMES SHIRLEY
The Ball
O fool, thou fool, thou poor bragging fool!
HEINRICH HEINE
"The Song of the Oceanides"
Mankind in general seem to take about as much pride in bragging of their faults as of their virtues.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
For all braggarts are anxious to gain our envy. We have something to give which is of consequence to them, so, though they employ a patronising voice, it is really we who are the patrons, for it is we who are solicited. Therefore the most swollen-headed of actors is really the humblest, for he is striving to impress all those around him: their indifference maddens him; slighting words rouse him to frenzy. He is completely at their mercy--their sport, their servile slave.
A. CONSTANCE SMEDLEY
"The Humility of Self-Assertion", The Idler
Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack.
SPANISH PROVERB
O what a world is this we live in,
Too much bragging, little giving;
All is brazen-face pretension.
EDWARD JOHN TURNOUR
"The World,", Thoughts in Youth and Age
There is one thing about hens that looks like wisdom--they don't cackle much until they have laid their eggs.
ANONYMOUS
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Apr. 22, 1876
For a while they managed remarkably well; only their habit of bragging was prodigious.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Some Words with a Mummy
Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
ROBERT BROWNING
Dramatis Personae
The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I know you think I'm
Bragging a lot
But for goodness sake
What else have I got?
AMY BEECROFT BROWN
Poems by Amelia
You will never hear a good word said about a bragger, unless you hear him talk about himself.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Often, unaware, our writers paint
Themselves in every hero. Desperate taint!
Braggart authors make wild bragging plays,
Both kings and beggars sounding their own praise.
NICOLAS BOILEAU
The Art of Poetry