When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.
I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
All is well that ends well
Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence.
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.
All's well that ends well.
People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.
I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
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