#bravado

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#especially #get #keep #level #otherwise

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#any #bravado #cover-up #fool #god

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#bravado #closer #fear #get #i

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. ↗

— Menander

#bravery #choice #thy

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#amazing #audiences #been #bravado #christopher

By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#demon #fearlessness #humor #jace-wayland #sarcasm

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#self-assurance #self-confidence #self-confidence

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#animal #belief #bravado #died #dignity

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#humor #lawyers #men #humor

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#cowardice #humour #running #star-wars #cowardice