Quotes & Sayings About Bragging

Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women. — Stephen Richards

I'm such a maniac. Where wayne at, I'm tryna get sum brainiac. — Nicki Minaj

I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee. — Henry Kirke White

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. — Will Rogers

I'm a big deal That's why I get more head than a pigtail — Nicki Minaj

In a June 25, 2010, Washington Post article, the CIA acknowledged officially
discussing the creation of a video of a fake Saddam Hussein having sex with a
teenage boy in order to discredit him in the eyes of the Iraqi people. Evidently,
the Agency did create a video of a fake Osama Bin Laden drinking liquor
around a campfire with his cronies, bragging about their conquests of young
boys. The article quoted an anonymous former CIA officer "chuckling" at the
memory, and declaring that the actors used in the video were drawn from
"some of us darker-skinned employees." These ridiculous clandestine ideas
brought to mind the childish efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro forty years
earlier. — Donald Jeffries

Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove: It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. — Rick Yancey

What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of social engagement? What happens to the people who want to communicate in depth, individual to individual, in the quiet and permanence of the printed word, and who were shaped by their love of writers who wrote when publication still assured some kind of quality control and literary reputations were more than a matter of self-promotional decibel levels? — Jonathan Franzen

Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It's bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways. — Glen Cook

There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons ... — Mark Steyn

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. — Bill Maher

When I first entered the school, I was all set to tie my hair in a ponytail, get a fake tan, and write my homework in pink gel ink. I was prepared to hear girls bragging nonchalantly about the BMWs and diamond earrings they recieved for their birthday. I almost looked forward to hearing the flashlight-wielding nuns tell me to "leave room for the holy ghost" when I danced lewedly with messy-haired prep-school boys — Jennifer Allison

I was on the plane with Dwayne You can call me Whitley, I go to Hillman — Nicki Minaj

I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab. — Nicki Minaj

She's always bragging about the dumbest stuff. The other day she was telling me, she's like, 'You know I can still fit in my wedding dress.' I was like, 'Oh my god, who cares, right?' I mean it is weird that she's the same size now as she was when she was 8 months pregnant. — Amy Schumer

Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation. — Archibald Marwizi

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about. — Matt Taibbi

Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce - laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches, and the literary mock thunders of its patriotic bragging, cannot hide the fact that the Nation is the greatest evil for the Nation, that all its precautions are against it, and any new birth of its fellow in the world is always followed in its mind by the dread of a new peril. — Rabindranath Tagore

Stay fly, you can call me Have a Safe Flight — Nicki Minaj

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

Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular — Nicki Minaj

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become. — Karen Salmansohn

... a thief's heart is an impetuous organ, and while inwardly he throbs for absolution, at the same time he can't keep from bragging. — John Banville

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! — Matthew Lesko

Smell shit when one's bragging. — Toba Beta

She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn't mean it to. If she could, she'd let him bear her secret. She'd let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they'd remember how it feels to be inhabited. — Beth Ann Fennelly

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to. — Lois Lowry

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists. — Wayne Gretzky

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

I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

He won every game, yet she hardly noticed. As long as she hit the ball, it resulted in shameless bragging. When she missed - well, even the fires of Hell couldn't compare to the rage that burst from her mouth. He couldn't remember a time when he'd laugh so hard. — Sarah J. Maas

I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world. — Kylie Minogue

Got that super soaker pussy pop like cola coka. Plus it's tighter than a choker, got em smilin like the joker. — Nicki Minaj

Think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anus. to call someone an asshole is really bragging him up. — Mary Roach

I'm a stereo & she's just so monotone — Nicki Minaj

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit. — Harold Holzer

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights. — Saul Griffith

The more bragging you see on the media, the faster the war is turning against the braggarts. If — Evan Currie

Man I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off. — Nicki Minaj

You're the only redeeming quality I have in her eyes." "Oh, that's not true. She loves you. She bragged about you all day." "She bragged about me being able to snag a woman like you. So, really, she was still just bragging about you." "Well." Val chuckled. "I suppose that really is one of your best qualities. But you do have others. Plenty of them. And some of them are even redeeming. — Kelly Oram

And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT — Nicki Minaj

Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender. — Nicki Minaj

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of. — William Perry

I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy. — Brendan Fraser

Who got the baddest pussy on the planet? D boys love me, they don't understand it. — Nicki Minaj

Invented the #hashtag. — Chris Messina

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter. — Robert Stam

Confidence; Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise. — Dan Pearce

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

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you. — Stephen Malkmus

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.
[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you. — James A. Owen

If I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it? ... I should want to draw it like a Bat, for its short-sightedness; like a Bantam. for its bragging; like a Magpie, for its honesty; like a Peacock, for its vanity; like an Ostrich, for putting its head in the mud, and thinking nobody sees it -' ... 'And like a Phoenix, for its power of springing from the ashes of its faults and vices, and soaring up anew into the sky! — Charles Dickens

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging. — Dorianne Laux

If you done it, it ain't bragging. — Walt Whitman

Celebrate your victories! Be verbal about it. Haters will say you're bragging, but those who love you will celebrate with you. — Steve Maraboli

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

You must be Magnus Bane," the blonde said. "I've heard a lot about you from Simon."
"I can't blame him for bragging," said Magnus. — Cassandra Clare

The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives. — Chris Kyle

That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal — Nicki Minaj

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything. — Chavela Vargas

You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't seen nobody, and I mean nobody, come to the ring in such style, with such flair, charisma, I'm talking about bringing it all, a full package. I mean who would you know that could come out in a flying carpet. Come out like a concert, dancing, with like, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out. Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport, that did what Prince Naseem did. And I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it. — Naseem Hamed

In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap. — Rob Sheffield

I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass. — Steve Largent

Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do. — Donna Lynn Hope

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk, — Wayne LaPierre

Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging. — Brandon Stanton

[This is] the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day and the moment is always modern, we are the only men in all history who fell back upon bragging about the mere fact that to-day is not yesterday. I fear that some in the future will explain it by saying that we had precious little else to brag about. For, whatever the medieval faults, they went with one merit. Medieval people never worried about being medieval; and modern people do worry horribly about being modern. — G.K. Chesterton

Bragging that you had sex with a prostitute is like bragging that you got Doritos out of a vending machine. — Natasha Leggero

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway. — Steve Coogan

Your Pants Are Bragging at Me — Jenny Lawson

It's not bragging if you can back it up. — Muhammad Ali

I know words. I have the best words. — Donald J. Trump

The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery
amputation at the neck. — Evan Esar

Let me shake it off I just signed a couple deals I might break you off — Nicki Minaj

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging. — Vanna Bonta

Wherever you go, there you are. Your emptiness goes with you. Maddening. Things that help: writing, reading, water, walks, forgiving myself every other minute, practicing easy yoga, taking deep breaths, and petting my dogs. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human ...
If there's a silver lining to the emptiness, here it is: the unfillable is what brings people together. I've never made a friend by bragging about my strengths, but I've made countless by sharing my weakness and my emptiness. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Bragging often precedes begging. — B.C. Forbes

Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies. — Colette

You got your resolutions ... We just got reservations. — Drake

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that. — Drake

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome. — Ernest Hemingway,

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging. — Brad Pitt

Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back. — Shaun Alexander

Man I can't even count all of these hundreds Duffle bag every time I go to SunTrust — Nicki Minaj

Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law. — Alexander Viets Griswold

Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement — Drake

My office is my tour bus. — Drake

I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother." — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Another gift is Pansy's love. Bathed in that love, Lyle in turn is gentle with other kids, especially with kids uneasy under their bragging, kids really as frightened as rabbits when a hawk darkens their world. Lyle's underweight presence steadies them, and he is sought after - but not exactly as a friend. He is more like Anansi the helpful spider of his favorite tales - a quiet ally who prefers his own company but skitters over to join you when you need him. — Kate Bernheimer

One thing the coupe never got? ROOF — Nicki Minaj

All things considered, I've learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom the case, but in conversation writers are inclined to waste an inordinate amount of time either bragging or bellyaching about reviews and royalties, complaining about their publishers, or dissing other authors. Painters, being equally insecure, can likewise come across as boring and bitchy
it's tough being creative in a materialistic society
but since they labor not in vineyards of verbiage but upon ice floes of visual images, they tend to function with fewer inhibitions than the wordsmiths when it comes to vocally exploring and expressing ideas. Since no one judges their speech, comparing it to their written work, they don't feel so acutely the weight of language. — Tom Robbins

In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on. — Mitt Romney

You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising. — John Nance Garner

Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?"
"I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker." Bragging now? — Kresley Cole

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway. — Paul Orfalea

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. #54, I SEE THE FACE — Rumi

I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard. — Khaled Hosseini