Gloating Quotes

• Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

  Chuck Knox

  Moving, Loss, Winning

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• Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

  Pierce Brosnan

  Regret, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

  John Steinbeck

  Bragging, Brag, Boast

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• Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

  Thomas Hood

  Sheep, Gone, Half

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

  Marie Stopes

  Curiosity, Body, Structure

  Married Love ch. 5 (1918)

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• Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

  Criss Jami

  Glowing, Victory, Movement

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.40, Criss Jami

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• Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

  John Flanagan

  Winning, Men, Appreciate

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• It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

  Christopher Jones

  Desire, Virtue, Strive

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• If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Arrows, Evil

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• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Opposites, Desire

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press

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• -You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

  Janet Evanovich

  Humility, Good Woman, Max

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• Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

  Mark Twain

  Smart, Editors, Envy

  Mark Twain (2014). “What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

  Stephanie Kallos

  Hurt, Thinking, Suffering

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• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Bottles, Vineyards

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Good Man

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• You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cousin, Children, Heart

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• Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...] "I get that you're angry—," said Patch. "I am ripped apart!" I shouted.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Blow, Faces, Said

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm sensitive to how people are feeling if they feel like they got it wrong, and sensitive to the people who are kind of gloating that they knew all along, they figured it out. I'm loving them through this process, because I know that it took me a while once I found out that it was me.

  Vanessa Ray

  People, Feelings, Kind

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Football, Wine, Hysteria

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Book, Men

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