Boasters Quotes

• Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Depressing, Trying, Impress

  Twitter post from Oct 31, 2016

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• Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

  Eliza Haywood

  Boast

  Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.163, Broadview Press

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• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• Least doers are the greatest boasters.

  William Gurnall

  Laziness, Doers

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• Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

  Mary Renault

  Horse, Heart, Love Is

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Self, Voice, Leaving

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• 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

  Power, Envy, May

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

  Theophrastus

  Doe, Pretension

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• What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
  [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

  Horace

  Mountain, Ridiculous, Born

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