Quotes on Braggarts

If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

O braggart vile and damned furious wight!