Blaise Pascal Quotes

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

I'm kinda not one of those people that likes to put up trophies in my house, because I don't want my mom to come be like, 'Hey, you're full of yourself.'

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

I always showed off when I was a kid.

I don't like false modesty.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.