Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
All is well that ends well
All's well that ends well.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.
Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
Being an arrogant braggart just doesn’t work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)
With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).
O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.
It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.
or simply:
