Bragging

(315 votes)   If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(228 votes)   Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(127 votes)   If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(126 votes)   There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(118 votes)   Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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