Bragged Quotes

#1. Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

Ameen Rihani

#2. Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The

Chuck Klosterman

#3. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.

Rick Riordan

#4. I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'

Arianna Huffington

#5. The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not - when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate
sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. The obvious difference between Paul and us is that Paul bragged about his weakness, and we try to hide it.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#8. If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Ann Coulter

#9. Buddies didn't have touchable breasts or intriguing vaginas. Buddies were people you burped around and bragged to about other women.

Victoria Dahl

#10. When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Jodi Picoult

#11. Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.

Tim O'Brien

#12. Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do ... I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

Roy Jones Jr.

#13. I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

Cat Power

#14. If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

Gary Yourofsky

#15. I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.

Yao Ming

#16. Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.

Ai Yazawa

#17. If I ever see the twins again, it looks like I owe them a zombie-girl mud fight.

Susan Ee

#18. Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

John Barnes

#19. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20

Craig Shirley

#20. Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.

Jessica Day George

#21. [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#22. I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess ...

Anupam Kher

#23. The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

Andre Gide

#24. It's all very Super Secret Squirrel.

Qwen Salsbury

#25. What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

Charles Baudelaire

#26. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

E.W. Howe