Boasting Quotes

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
― Stephen Hawking

“They call me, The Sharkalator”
― James Patterson

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.”
― M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine

“The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.”
― Markesa Yeager

“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
― Ferdinand Foch

“He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”
― Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine

“By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“[His] modesty... reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too."
Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“Don't gloat; there's nothing in it for you.”
― Ryan Holiday , Ego Is the Enemy

“No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.”
― Francoise Sagan

“Dare to be the most charitable friend that one can know - therefore, care for the orphan and the poor and the widow - share everything through prayers from your heart to spare a soul, so that you barely do it for the credit or for show (hardly for rarity, too, although you reap what you sow). Through sincerity do what you trust; it scares many foes. Also, show no partiality: 'too unfair' must go. Plus know it's a slow, terrible thing to love just to boast; there's no scarcity of things true being cut in the throat: and blown up, such harsh realities roast us coast to coast (as though love's some dark noir since neither good nor bad may gloat (doesn't matter if you sacrifice your sun or a goat)). But regardless, much to the contrary, all seeds need growth; thus, deplorable, horrible or not, we'll bleed love's flow. More pouring out meaningful ways to keep the boat afloat; less rowing for it seems eternal days around a moat: because good deeds, clichés, these are what make the world still glow, placing smiles on its face while it toasts to our Lord of hosts. It's like grace is needed most when even one's been brought low, so dare to be the most charitable one you will know.”
― Criss Jami

“bombast: (n.) boasting of war crimes.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Don’t go around boasting about your achievements. Success is only as grand as someone else think it is.”
― Joan Ambu

“If a man boast of his attractiveness, he is unattractive.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“She smirked. 'I vaguely recall you boasting weeks ago that I would be the one to crawl into your bed. It seems like you did the crawling.'

His lips twitched upward. 'It would seem so.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I excitedly told her about what had been going on in my life. After about an hour of talking, she looked me dead in the eye and said, “You need to grow up, Mike. Stop boasting about your stupid fights and telling all these stories about how you got arrested. It only makes you look like a criminal. In the real world, people don’t care about that kind of stuff.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I'm confident you remember how adept I am as a sleep aid.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Kings not only like to collect, they like to boast about their collections.”
― Alan Dean Foster , Star Wars: The Force Awakens

“Stay humble.
Avoid boasting about your accomplishments; allow others to inquire about them instead of bringing them up yourself.”
― Jeffrey Bernardo Copiaco

“With my beloved sword I ministered to them, as it was meet. In no wise had they joy in that banqueting, foul doers of ill deeds, that they should devour me sitting round in feast nigh to the bottoms of the sea; nay, upon the morrow they lay upon the shore in the flotsam of the waves, wounded with sword-thrusts, blades done to death, so that never there-after might they about the steep straights molest the passage of seafaring men.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell