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Tag Name "Boasting" (42)

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Boasting is only a masked shame it does not truly believe in itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
W. Graham Scroggie
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Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.
Thucydides
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Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
Mason Cooley
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
Sophocles
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The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
Alexandra Ivy
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Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.
Stephen Harper
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I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms, said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.
C. S. Lewis
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson
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I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works.
Chris Oyakhilome
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The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.
Comtesse Diane
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
William Shakespeare
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Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.
Dave Barry
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith
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Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.
David Luiz
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Edward Young
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
Flavor Flav
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Horace Greeley
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Patricia Moyes
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