#boasting

When boasting ends, there dignity begins. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#boasting #dignity #ends

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#boasting #killing #rage #threats #warning

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#bragging #bravado #bravery #courage #determination

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.' ↗

— Eminem

#been #better #boasting #hip #hip hop

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ↗

— King Hussein

#boasting #dark #dispel #does #face

If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #pride #funny

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#bad #bad luck #boasting #conviction #deepest

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#aspects #boasting #complacency #confidence #expression

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is. ↗

— Criss Jami

#actions-over-words #boasting #bragging #cheap #cheapness

Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too." Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family. ↗

— Erin Bow

#belonging #boasting #hope #longing #talking-animals