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A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target. By Richelle E. Goodrich Friends Session Boasting Attract Real

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. By Charles Comiskey Honest License Brag Jail Honesty

Protestations of happiness could sound almost boasting to those whose happiness is incomplete. One did not boast of perfect skin to one affected by dermatitis; for the same reason, perhaps, one should take care in proclaiming one's happiness. By Alexander Mccall Smith Happiness Protestations Incomplete Sound Boasting

I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting. By Dane Cook Exciting Feel People Brag Make

Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it. By Penelope Trunk Brag Remember Achieved People Price

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Boastful Taunts Deeds Actions Words

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them. By Gilbert K. Chesterton English Boastful People Great Misfortune

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. By Miguel De Cervantes Brag Ideal Benefit Speaker Unconsciously

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. By Jean De La Bruyere Praise Facts Heap Epithets Poor

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak. By Meghan Daum Posting Brag Humble Speak Waiting

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. By Jeffrey Zeldman Marketing Bragging Evil Touting Wares

People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable. By G.k. Chesterton Brag People Vices Insufferable Begin

You're not even boasting about it.""Should I?""You can't. You're too arrogant to boast. By Ayn Rand Boasting Boast Arrogant

If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.' By Maisie Williams Maisie Shut Braggy Started Family

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals. By Orson Scott Card People Boy Great Virtue Local

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Fame Ambition Sovereign Deity Proud

Bragging often precedes begging. By B.c. Forbes Bragging Begging Precedes

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway. By Paul Orfalea Times Point Bragging Good Friends

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. By Gertrude Stein Boasting Deepest Thing Conviction Bad

If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut. By Anthony Liccione Brags Sex Life Stud Slut

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. By Josh Billings Vanity Passion Vices Strange Job

Compliments you get free, the complaints you've to earn it. By Sarvesh Jain Compliments Free Complaints Earn

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else. By William Shakespeare Freedom Boast

Success has always been a great liar By Friedrich Nietzsche Success Liar Great

Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up. By Alexander Strauch Braggarts Jealous Build People Tear

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again. By Publilius Syrus Bestowed Boasts Favor Back

I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works. By Chris Oyakhilome Word God Works Boasting Found

All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat. By Nicholson Baker Tips Tricks Woes Worries Gong

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all. By Nathaniel Parker Willis Mad Ambition Trumpeteth

To own beauty is the first lie of it. By Chris Campanioni Beauty Lie

There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. By David Hume Liars Frequently Company Marvellous Set

There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement. By Rabindranath Tagore Display Extravagance Dress Furniture Entertainments

Those who boast are seldom the great. By Jawaharlal Nehru Great Boast Seldom

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance. By Jeremy Collier Vanity Lying Merit Family Acquaintance

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction. By Henry David Thoreau Imply Flattery Oftenest Excite Contempt

They have come across an aspect of product performance about a brand that is startlingly impressive: that a Land Rover is designed to be able to drive 4,000 miles continually off-road, for example; that the airline I flew in on this morning had a masseuse on the plane that gave me a neck massage when I woke up; or that an ice cream that was forced upon me last night contained preposterously large chunks of Toffee Chocolate Fudge. By Adam Morgan Fudge Land Rover Toffee Chocolate

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. By Albert Payson Terhune Win Boasting Lose Excuse

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth. By Bernard Berenson Lying Exaggerating Boasting Talk Warmed

In life I learned that you should not brag, until you've done it And even worse than that.. Could you do it again?? That's why I'm always humble, humbleness is a brave man's obligation, since he knows what it takes to accomplish a great deed By Renzo Gracie Brag That Life Learned Worse

The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short. By Aristotle. Respect Claims Man Merits Short

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance. By Samuel Johnson Merit Importance Vanity Trusted Secret

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. By Nirmala Srivastava Times Truth Display Modern Impresses

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess. By Theophrastus Possess Define Boastfulness Pretension Good

Never brag, never bluster, never blush. By Robert Browning Brag Bluster Blush

The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths By Anton Chekhov Lie Truths Elates Dearer Thousand

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man's goal is imitation, not redemption. By Billy Graham Man Nobility Ideals Progress Boasts

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. By Logan Pearsall Smith Acquaintances Boast Kinds Complain

Success is the most convincing talker in the world. By Napoleon Bonaparte Success World Convincing Talker

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? By Robert Louis Stevenson Friends Proud Man

No one likes a braggart, and to praise your children is to curse them with misfortune, but we admit it, if only in secret, if only to ourselves: We are proud, we are so proud of them. We've given them all we can, but our greatest gift has been to imprint upon them our own ordinariness. They may begrudge us, may think us unambitious and narrow-minded, but someday they will realize that what makes them unremarkable is what kept them alive. By Anthony Marra Proud Braggart Misfortune Secret Praise

Success breeds confidence. By Beryl Markham Success Confidence Breeds

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar. By Friedrich Nietzsche Liar Lie Proud

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them. By Charles Spurgeon Christian Testimony Life Ill Day

We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them. By J.r.r. Tolkien Gondor Truthspeakers Men Thing Seldom

The privacy of pride. By Guy Gavriel Kay Pride Privacy

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean. By C.s. Lewis Exaggerate

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. By Christian Nestell Bovee Cunning Conceal Indifferently Shrewd Boast

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars. By Michael Drayton Desires Liars Fondly Flatter Conceits

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Candor Flattery World Difficult Easier

Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are By Orhan Pamuk Vulgar People Boast Happy

There is a hidden power in details By Sabeesh Yemmay Details Hidden Power

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie. By Katha Pollitt Good Tend Strangers Make Sound

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions. By Harsha Bhogle Teams Thought Discussing Flaunting Material

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment. By Eden Phillpotts Secrets Entertainment Jealous Ear Generally

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing! By Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton Lover Feelings Flattery Commonplace Tongue

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. By Samuel Johnson Superiority Envies Confesses

Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do. By Donna Lynn Hope Special Wannabee Ops Earned Boast

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. By Friedrich Nietzsche Vanity Honest Oneself Sense Shame

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love. By Julian Barnes Selfadvertisingly European Paris Cities Power

In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations By Wasif Ali Wasif Deprivations Bosom Success Lie Delights

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future. By Debbie Ford Build Accomplishments Future Affirming Gifts

Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It's time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It's time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again By Camilo Garzon Special Time Lies Feel Problems

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. By C.s. Lewis Praise Enjoyment Consummation Delight Enjoy

I don't get it. I'm sexually attractive to a remarkable degree-""And humble.""It's not bragging if it's true. And I'm his-which means, this is in the bag. Or should be. By Kresley Cole Degree Humble True Bag Sexually

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. By Oliver Goldsmith Flattery Ambitious Forever Adulation Receive

jealously lives with insecurity! By Eric Jerome Dickey Jealously Insecurity Lives

For what is glory but the blaze of fame? By John Milton Fame Glory Blaze

I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at. By Robbie Williams Show Good

Now go and brag of thy present happiness, whosoever thou art, brag of thy temperature, of thy good parts, insult, triumph, and boast; thou seest in what a brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayst be dejected, how many several ways, by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent, an ague, &c.; how many sudden accidents may procure thy ruin, what a small tenure of happiness thou hast in this life, how weak and silly a creature thou art. By Robert Burton Art Thou Thy Brag Small

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words. By Carl Sandburg Proud Words Boots Back Easy

Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word. By Prerak Trivedi Knowledge Brag Thing Boast Word

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. By John Steinbeck Brag Required

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. By Lucius Annaeus Seneca Bounty Pride Ostentation Ambition

He even brags about his poops, By Judy Blume Poops Brags

We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness. By Debasish Mridha Emptiness Feel Proud Knowledge Filled

Rumors are spread by jealous people By Laurie Halse Anderson Rumors People Spread Jealous

Do not trust everyone who smiles at you;some admire your achievements,but some misunderstand them,and many more envy them.Jealousy is like the sky:everywhere on everyone. By Matshona Dhliwayo Sky Trust Smiles Admire Achievementsbut

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you By Walt Disney Uniquely People Resist Telling

'Twould be easy to say 'tis a gift, but 'twould also be an untruth. Beauty and compliments are always to be found in the truth, when not maliciously brought to light. By Sam Knight Twould Tis Gift Untruth Easy

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true. By Siri Hustvedt Perfect Spectacular Lies Wishes Mark

Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom. By Abe Burrows Glamour Bosom Indefinable Girl Big

Success, It makes you beautiful By Ameya Agrawal Success Beautiful Makes

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. By Stephen Leacock Advertising Threats Judicious Mixture Flattery

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. By Isaac Watts Christ God Lord Forbid Boast

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal. By James Edwin Gunn Reveal Lies Revealing Truths Incautiously

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. By Emmet Fox Criticism Selfboasting Indirect Form

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that. By Max Lucado Maker Stars Die Live Brag

I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself. By Floyd Mayweather Jr. Fight Bragging Proved

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'. By Dada Bhagwan Time Problem Relish Pride People

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art. By Big Sean Stay Honest Boastful Music Art