People Bragging Quotes

#1. There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.

Tom Althouse

#3. I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

Mariska Hargitay

#4. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

Muhammad Ali

#5. Was ever grief like mine?

George Herbert

#6. Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make you well? Is that such a hard sale?

Bill Maher

#7. Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.

Laura Prepon

#8. Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

James Altucher

#10. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

Criss Jami

#11. And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging.

Carnegie Mellon

#12. Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.

Brandon Stanton

#13. How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

Donna Lynn Hope

#14. What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

Nas

#16. People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

E.W. Howe

#17. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.

Mary Oliver

#18. When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

Pete Rose

#19. I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

David Lucero

#20. I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

Mariel Hemingway

#21. The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

Bob Avakian

#22. I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Joy Behar

#23. I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!

Douglas Adams

#24. I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.

John Waters

#25. There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.

Saul Bellow