Boasting. Quotes, aphorisms, sayings about boasting, braggarts
To boast means to tell others without any courtesy: I am better than you.
Pierre Buast
Noise doesn't prove anything. A hen that has laid an egg sometimes cackles so loudly as if it had demolished an entire planet.
Mark Twain
If a man speaks badly about himself, don’t believe him: he’s just bragging.
Wanda Blonska
When there are no merits in adulthood, they brag about their school successes.
F. Selivanov
If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
Arturo Graf
Man is the crown of creation; and who said this?
Elbert Hubbard
He who brags to those who know him deservedly laughs at himself.
Aesop
In boasters, as in gilded weapons, the inside does not match the outside.
Pythagoras of Samos
When there is nothing to be proud of in the present, they boast about yesterday’s merits.
Cicero Mark Tullius
Boastful speeches are the first sign of weakness, and those who are capable of great things keep their mouths shut.
Cicero Mark Tullius
Don't tell me: “I have famous great-grandfathers and fathers.” The faithful law commands everyone to boast in their life.
Basil the Great
William Shakespeare
Everyone says about a fool and a braggart that he is a fool and a braggart; but no one tells him this, and he dies, not knowing about himself what everyone knows.
Jean de La Bruyère
When people boast about vices, it is not a problem; moral evil arises when they boast of virtues.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
Arturo Graf
We rarely brag about what is important and necessary for us, what we value and truly love.
Lev Shestov
It is in vain that you boast about your ancestors if your descendants cannot be proud of you.
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Braggers are rarely brave, and brave people rarely boast.
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A boastful person is a laughing stock for the smart, an object of worship for fools, a tasty prey for flatterers and a slave to his own vanity.
F. Bacon
You're boasting in vain that you stayed
Honest, incorruptible and in disgrace:
Many who really weren’t for sale -
These are the ones who were not bought.
I. Guberman
It is wonderful to praise for good deeds, but to glorify for bad deeds is the work of an evil person and a deceiver.
Democritus
When a smart person scolds you, it's bad, but when a stupid person praises you, it's even worse.
T. Iriarte
We are much more likely to grab something that is praised by others than something that is praiseworthy in itself.
J. Labruyère
Praiseworthy epithets do not constitute praise. Praise requires facts, and skillfully presented ones at that.
J. Labruyère
When you praise, you always praise yourself; when you blame, you always blame someone else.
F. Nietzsche
Praise and slander were accepted indifferently
And don't argue with a fool.
A. Pushkin
To boast of strength - to carry a bull on your shoulders - means to be like him.
K. Fontenelle
The common fate of all braggarts: sooner or later, but still you will certainly get into a mess.
W. Shakespeare
Anyone who constantly boasts of any of his qualities admits that he does not possess them at all.
A. Schopenhauer
To boast means to say to others without any courtesy: I am better than you.
Pierre Buast
To boast of strength - to carry a bull on your shoulders - means to be like him.
Bernard Fontenelle
Boasting is a sign of insecurity. Rudeness is a sign of powerlessness. Hoping for benefit from their manifestation is a sign of stupidity.
Stas Yankovsky
The boasting of a stupid person is sincere; the boasting of a smart person is of an evil, unsympathetic nature.
Daniil Kharms
When there is nothing to be proud of in the present, they boast about yesterday’s merits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's easy to brag when you know you don't have to prove it!
Laurel Hamilton
The common fate of all boasters: whether sooner or later, you will certainly end up in trouble.
William Shakespeare
Anyone who wants to teach someone who has a high opinion of his own intelligence is wasting his time.
Democritus
Noise doesn't prove anything. A hen that has laid an egg sometimes cackles so loudly as if it had demolished an entire planet.
Mark Twain
Boastful speeches are the first sign of weakness, and those who are capable of great things keep their mouths shut.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who speaks about his own merits is ridiculous, but he who is not aware of them is stupid.
Philip Chesterfield
Self-criticism is the most cunning way of boasting...
Chernov V.A.
In boasters, as in gilded weapons, the inside does not match the outside.
Pythagoras
When a person boasts that he will not change his beliefs, he undertakes to walk in a straight line all the time - this is a fool, confident in his infallibility. There are no principles, but only events; there are no laws - there are circumstances; a high-flying person himself tries on events and circumstances in order to lead them.
Honore Balzac
We need two types of acquaintances: those to whom we can complain about life, and those to whom we can brag.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If a man speaks badly about himself, don’t believe him: he’s just bragging.
Wanda Blonska
A broken clock shows the correct time twice a day and, after several years, can boast of a long series of successes.
Maria-Ebner Eschenbach
When there are no merits in adulthood, they brag about their school successes.
F. Selivanov
If you want people to say good things about you, don't say good things about yourself.
Blaise Pascal
He who flaunts erudition or learning has neither one nor the other.
Ernest Hemingway
If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
Arturo Graf
He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend.
Samuel Coleridge
Man is the crown of creation; and who said this?
Elbert Hubbard
Affecting any quality, boasting about it, is admitting to yourself that you do not possess them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Whatever your opinion about your merits, do not flaunt them in society, do not follow the example of those boastful people who try to turn the conversation in such a way that they have the opportunity to show them off. If these are genuine advantages, people will inevitably learn about them without you, and it will be much more beneficial for you.
Philip Chesterfield
A boastful person, if he has nothing to brag about, sometimes boasts about the successes of others.
Ilya Shevelev
There are people who are capable of any noble and heroic deed, but cannot resist the temptation to tell the unfortunate person about their happiness.
Mark Twain
Everyone says about a fool and a braggart that he is a fool and a braggart; but no one tells him this, and he dies, not knowing about himself what everyone knows.
Jean La Bruyère
Some scientists accumulate knowledge only to boast about it.
Georg Lichtenberg
It is not good when a person boasts, but it is even worse when he has nothing to boast about.
Ilya Shevelev
Man is the crown of creation; and who said this?
Elbert G. Hubbard
He who boasts of knowing a secret has already discovered one half of it, and will not hesitate to reveal the other.
Jean Paul
Keep your knowledge, like a watch, in your inner pocket, do not display it, as a watch does, without any reason, just to show that you have it.
Philip Chesterfield
I never cease to be amazed at how many people in our country live with someone else's mind!
You should not trust people who often wear glasses with tinted lenses.
Some people are so beautiful on the outside that you just want to kiss them... And when you listen to them, you just want to puke and run away...
Some people, like birches, bend and bend all their lives, but never break. And others, powerful and slender, like oak trees, stand straight all their lives, do not bend and bend under pressure, and then - boom! And - they broke, and they are not there.
You rarely see some people, but you quickly forget them.
There is nothing stupider than giving up and admitting defeat.
Why do people swear?! Are they really so lazy that they can’t expand their vocabulary by at least a couple of words?
Why do people who know the least know it loudest?!
Some people get smarter over the years, while others just get old.
Very often a person's weakness is his real, hidden strength.
A parody of a person does not have to be funny if the person himself is serious.
A pessimist is a person who looks at milk banks and jelly rivers and sees in them only calories and cholesterol.
Putting your hand on your heart and speaking with a clear conscience, 80% of people are born due to chance.
Progress is driven by the laziest of the laziest people in the world, looking for yet another way to make this universe as simple as possible.
Anyone can solve easy problems.
Two-faced people are so difficult to communicate with. It’s much easier to simply erase them from your life.
The happiest people don't care about everything in the world. They simply learn to make the best out of everything and notice only the good in everything. Love generously! Care from the heart! Speak softly! And leave everything else to the discretion of the Lord God.
There are three types of people: those who can count and those who cannot count.
Only stupid people do only smart things.
Only fools believe in random chance and luck.
Only weaklings are afraid of problems. Strong personalities solve them and make fortunes from them.
Only those who are not in a hurry manage to snatch the most important thing from the bustle of life and win.
A smart person often has to play dumb. To prove that he is smart.
A smart person sees a lot, speaks little and hears everything perfectly.
The success of successful people is that they never give up and always keep moving forward.
A person who provokes others to say “Weak?” is usually a weakling himself.
The crazier the leader, the easier it is for followers to believe him.
The less often a person makes mistakes, the less experience he has.
In order for other people to help you, you need to learn how to ask for help correctly.
This world is full of wonderful, diverse individuals who we should accept for who they are... even if most of them are complete idiots.
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