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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none.
Your greatest accomplishments, no matter how impressive you think them to be, are some else's worst nightmare. Your most prized possession is another man's disgusting chunk of trash. Be careful what you brag about.
promised him, of course, that I wouldn't say anything, which I wouldn't have anyway, because of the sheer unpleasantry of divulging an unattractive truth to an attractive person.)
Social-media platforms have become places where it's acceptable to brag,
for he was discovered to be proud;
He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Told me a thing about yourself. All that I know
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;
If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar.
He made the mistake of imagining that his possessions were a measure of his own worth, and strutted and crowed, parading his things like a schoolboy with a champion catapult.
Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says.
"Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.
Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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.
I was jealous; therefore I loved.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Success has always been a great liar
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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.
uttered a word. He had
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'.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Bragging often precedes begging.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.
Rumors are spread by jealous people
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.
I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.
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.
Wear yourself proudly.
in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.
You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.
I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.
Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.
If I'd had any level of success last night, then I could justify my actions; as it was, I couldn't even fake being proud.
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.
Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up.
Those who boast are seldom the great.
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd, success wears almost the features of true mastery, and the greatest dupe of this counterfeit talent is History.
To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it.
And he was pretentious:
I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage.
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.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
Sometimes my lies impressed the hell out of me.
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.
It smelled delicious but tasted of jealousy.
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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.
And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.
Once you told a secret it was loose in the world, it was a wild thing
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.
There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'
my real self
would no longer have them.
I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch.
Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.
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.
Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all
But the Duke of Clermont was smiling and cheerful, and he'd thrown it out there as if it were merely one more fact to be recounted. The weather is lovely. The streets are paved with cobblestone. Your tits are magnificent.
People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
I liked being in the spotlight.
Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.
My other treasure was my virginity, and I'd thought of selling it too, years back, to the steward's hunchback son. I had refrained, holding out -I told myself- for a higher bidder. Now I fancied myself ruler of an impregnable realm.
I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.
Lochedus couldn't help feeling a little proud of himself, though he knew pride to be a slippery slope. He felt he was holding his own in the verbal sparring match with Beladona - not an easy thing to do.
I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!
Do not boast about tomorrow, y for you do not know what a day may bring.
There, my boy," he said. "It's awfully kind of you, Mr. Windlebird." "My dear boy, don't mention it. If you're satisfied, I'm sure I am." Mr. Windlebird always spoke the truth when he could. He spoke it now.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.
You told me to look into the mirror each morning and be proud of myself, to do nothing that I would be ashamed of.
'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.