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Tag Name "Boasting" (42)

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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
W. Graham Scroggie
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A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes let's expand ourselves intellectually.
Denis Dutton
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We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
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If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
Chin-Ning Chu
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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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I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works.
Chris Oyakhilome
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Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
Mason Cooley
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
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By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
Hector Hugh Munro
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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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If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.
Christopher Hitchens
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It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
Wallace Stegner
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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
Dave Gorman
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Wartihog put up his hand. What happens if we can't read, sir? No boasting, Wartihog! boomed Gobber. Get some idiot to read it for you.
Cressida Cowell
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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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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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