Boasting
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The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
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Boasting Quotations
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
King Hussein
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
Nathaniel Smith
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
Douglas Dunn
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
John Zimmerman
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
Boasting Translations
boasting in French is vantant
boasting in German is prahlend, aufschneidend
boasting in Latin is iactantia
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