Italian Proverb Quotes

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Very thinly-veiled self glorification.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.