Brag Quotes

• When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Humble, Advice

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• Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

  Denis Waitley

  Champion, Deeds, Action

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• I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

  Al Lewis

  Thinking, Who I Am, Hey

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• Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Big Fish

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• It's not bragging if you can back it up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Fighting, Greatness

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2011

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• Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

  John Milton

  May, Wonder, Solemnity

  'Comus' (1637) l. 745

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• The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

  Gene Brown

  Humility, Tough, Bragging

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• Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

  Bill Maher

  Liars, Government, People

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Knowing, Bragging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humanity, Literature, Becoming

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mean, Benefits, Literature

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Heaven

  "A Little Book in C Major".

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• I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

  John Hodgman

  Intelligent, Wish

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Bragging, Ass, Found

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.71

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

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• I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

  Nelson Mandela

  Successful, Unique, Men

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

  Johnny Unitas

  Differences, Bragging, Conceit

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• People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

  E. W. Howe

  Cutting, People, Bragging

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• Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wind, Deeds, Bragging

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Arrogance, Tongue

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Deceit, Stories

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.264

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• You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

  John Nance Garner

  Men, Littles, Advertising

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