BRAGGART

Related Subjects: Boasting, Cowards, Vanity

1. I love to watch the rooster crow,
   He's like so many men I know
   Who brag and bluster, rant and shout
   And beat their manly breasts, without
   The first damn thing to crow about.—JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, The Rooster
   

2. Cunning egotism. If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it. At any rate, brag.—EMERSON, Journals
   

3. Brag's a good dog, but he bath lost his tail.—Proverb
   

4. God and men think him a fool who brags of his own great wisdom.—Proverb
   

5. Great braggers little doers.—Proverb
   

6. Who knows himself a braggart,
   Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
   That every braggart shall be found an ass.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
   

7. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes
   And braggart with my tongue.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

8. A good name is seldom got by giving it one's self; and women, no more than honour, are compassed by bragging.—WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, The Country Wife