Braggarts Quotes

• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Power

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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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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• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Coward, Cowardice

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• Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Hero, Firefighter

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• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

  John Mason Brown

  Friendship, Names, People

  John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”

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• I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

  Etta James

  Girl, People, Hollywood

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• Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

  Sam Donaldson

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books

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• Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

  Jackie Gleason

  Marriage, Husband, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• O braggart vile and damned furious wight!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Furious

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.161, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Drama, Cat

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• With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.

  Evan Esar

  Done, Bragging, Said

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• It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.

  Randy Newman

  Team, America, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

  Josef Pieper

  Fall, Taken, Ambition

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Potters, Rogues

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Community, Reason, Redress

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• Being an arrogant braggart just doesn’t work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trying, Doe, Arrogant

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.1124, Macmillan

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