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No job is complete until the selfie is posted. — Ashok Kallarakkal

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. — Diogenes

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it? — Donna Lynn Hope

A river cannot boast to a sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast. — Ayn Rand

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

When boasting ends, there dignity begins. — Owen D. Young

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. — Charlotte Bronte

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. — Giuseppe Mazzini

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them. — M. Ageyev

Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise. — Lao-Tzu

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer. — John Mackey

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. — John Steinbeck

Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I'd rather hang out with real people, and real people don't have to boast. — Charles F. Glassman

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting! — Steve Camp

Ws 5:8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us? — Various

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it. — Aman Jassal

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas

I tend to sleep in the nude ... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. — Padma Lakshmi

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting. — Mason Cooley

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Patricia Moyes

Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work. — Eraldo Banovac

Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful. — Anonymous

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying. — Bruce Lee

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

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating. — Gaston Leroux

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. — Rabindranath Tagore

Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest. — Alan Brennert

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman

Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. — John Dryden

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar. — Toba Beta

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking. — Mason Cooley

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. — Jane Austen

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion. — Bauvard

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket. — Willy Russell

Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none. — Margaret Weis

If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross. — John Piper

Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens. — Virginia Woolf

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

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting. — Mason Cooley

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast. — David Luiz

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions. — Keith Stanfield

He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Save the earth! Are you kidding?
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it. — Toba Beta

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. — Helen Oyeyemi

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

If you show off do not get upset when God doesn't show up. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. — Sydney J. Harris

They call me, The Sharkalator — James Patterson

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride. — John Piper

He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow. — Charles Martin

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. — Albert Payson Terhune

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

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric. — Thornton Wilder