Brag Quotes - Page 5

• Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

  Robert Browning

  Bragging, Bluster

  Robert Browning (1996). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: With Variant Readings & Annotations”

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• I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

  Derek Jeter

  Yankees, Forever, Goes On

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• Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

  Jill Wagner

  Home, Winning, Age

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• Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, America, Python

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

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• Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

  Agnes Repplier

  Uplifting, Country, Cities

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• I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Hard Times, Want

  Source: mrbellersneighborhood.com

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• You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Book, Poetry

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• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

  John Smith

  Kings, Brave, Soldier

  "Advertisements for the Unexperienced, etc." by Captain John Smith, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Third Series, Volume III, p. 49,

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• I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  "Song: 'My Shot'". September 25, 2015.

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• If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

  James Blunt

  Thinking, Night, Clothes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I know people who have donated big to presidents. I know people who have raised money big for presidents. And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization. They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them. And they brag about it. Which is fine. That doesn't bother me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kings, Party, Organization

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is not respected. He who boasts achieves nothing. He who brags will not endure. According to followers of the Tao, "These are extra food and unnecessary luggage." They do not bring happiness, therefore followers of the Tao avoid them.

  Laozi

  Self, Pace, Followers

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

  Adrian Beltre

  Hard Work, Pride, Games

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• The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Mean, Unique

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.

  John Burroughs

  Angel, Dark, Men

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.34

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• The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

  Gene Brown

  Annoying, Annoying Things, Modest

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• Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Thinking, Virtue

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• These days I mostly worry ‘bout my bank account/I ain’t backin’ out ‘til I own a bank to brag about.

  Himanshu Suri

  Worry, Bank Accounts, These Days

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• You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue,' Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

  George M. Cohan

  Heart, Eye, Home

  "Song: You're a Grand Old Flag". 1906.

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• No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

  Charles Comiskey

  Honesty, Jail, Natural Instinct

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• It's understandable why a minority that was treated as badly as blacks in this country have been for so long would, when they finally found themselves on top, brag about it and want to shout from the rooftops.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Long, Want

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• I don't want to brag, but I'm a pretty good driver.

  Piper Perabo

  Want, Drivers

  "Notorious: Piper Perabo, Daniel Sunjata spill personal details". Interview with Nina Terrero, ew.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Remember, Enough

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Vanity, Boredom

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