Boasting Quotes

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.