Bragging Quotes

“I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Works

“How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A good deed is not a good deed if you brag about it”
― Jeffrey Bernardo Copiaco

“If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“When you flaunt your success, you're setting yourself up for ridicule. Things can always go wrong. Your career stalls, fancy cars get repossessed, you lose your home. Unfortunate events magnified by your shameless boasting. Nothing in life is foolproof. The only thing bragging will accomplish is prove you're the fool.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It will always sound like bragging to those who are slacking.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“People don’t care about this kind of stuff, ya know? We want self-improvement, not self-knowledge. We want change,” he motioned with his hands in a strange attempt to mock modern-day hipsters' version of change, “But not for any particular reason. We want to do good deeds but only if we can tell others about it. We want all sorts of ideals, not for their own sake, but rather for the sake of appearances. We don’t want knowledge; we want to show others we have knowledge.”
― Cic Mellace, The Humble Good: A Novel

“There was the thought that this would send me into retirement. I sent their entire country into retirement.”
― Zlatan Ibrahimović

“People get tired of listening to your perfect love story, when they're struggling with their own.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.”
― Francoise Sagan

“I have so many goodreads friends. Like 7, I think.”
― Brodie Cameron

“True love is behind the bar whereby love in the audience is vanity”
― Wilson M Mukama

“It was almost physically hurting me not to admit to my whole family that she was mine. Ours was a love that I wanted everyone from St. Petersburg and back to know about. Not that I had ever even been to St. Petersburg, but once they knew who I was there, they'd knew who Wren was too.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Dare to be the most charitable friend that one can know - therefore, care for the orphan and the poor and the widow - share everything through prayers from your heart to spare a soul, so that you barely do it for the credit or for show (hardly for rarity, too, although you reap what you sow). Through sincerity do what you trust; it scares many foes. Also, show no partiality: 'too unfair' must go. Plus know it's a slow, terrible thing to love just to boast; there's no scarcity of things true being cut in the throat: and blown up, such harsh realities roast us coast to coast (as though love's some dark noir since neither good nor bad may gloat (doesn't matter if you sacrifice your sun or a goat)). But regardless, much to the contrary, all seeds need growth; thus, deplorable, horrible or not, we'll bleed love's flow. More pouring out meaningful ways to keep the boat afloat; less rowing for it seems eternal days around a moat: because good deeds, clichés, these are what make the world still glow, placing smiles on its face while it toasts to our Lord of hosts. It's like grace is needed most when even one's been brought low, so dare to be the most charitable one you will know.”
― Criss Jami

“I never try to pretend I'm a day less than 43" she continued with slightly mendacious candor.”
― Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries

“bombast: (n.) boasting of war crimes.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“I cannot share my secrets with her, even to brag.

And I admit that I desperately want to brag.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It's an essential exchange in the world of work–to be seen and heard and to see others.”
― Lisa Bragg

“So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Make sure you lend a hand to those who succor you, so when they brag about doing A, B, C, and D for you, you can proudly say you helped with E, F, G, and H in return. Some folks just offer help to keep score; their succor isn’t genuine.”
― Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip

“Oh, yes — he did it. Did it very well, too, no doubt, and without thinking much about it either, except afterwards to brag of what he had gone through in his time, perhaps. They were men enough to face the darkness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness