Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you're trying to gain their respect and increase your influence.
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.
Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.
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