Best Gloating Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”

Character Pride Personality Self Love Proud Boast Unsaid Compliments Real Character Boasting Gloating Self Praise Boastful Left Unsaid Gloat Paying Compliments

Author:Joyce Rachelle

“It is unwise, and potentially dangerous, to enjoy the misfortunes of others.”

Wisdom Quotes Karma Rivalry Misfortune Ill Will Opportunism Schadenfreude Gloating Self Satisfaction

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“This girl was so hot, that even if one of your friends slept with her, you would have ended up gloating about it yourself for him.”

Gloating Humor And Comedy

Book:Double Trouble

Source: Double Trouble

“Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.”

Ifs Half Gone Streets Legs London Admire Meat Quarters Sheep Gazing Butchers Calves Gloating

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.”

Results Movement Victory Silent Loud Idle Superficial Floating Glowing Paralysis Blowing Up Gloating

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.”

Thinking Suffering Hurt Beats Sitting Gloating

Author:Stephanie Kallos

“A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”

Men Good Man Gloating

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.”

Feels Humans Desire Human Beings Virtue Fellows Strive Oneself Virtuous Gloating

Author:Christopher Jones

“I'm sensitive to how people are feeling if they feel like they got it wrong, and sensitive to the people who are kind of gloating that they knew all along, they figured it out. I'm loving them through this process, because I know that it took me a while once I found out that it was me.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Kind Feelings Found Process Sensitive Gloating

Author:Vanessa Ray

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”

Boast Bragging Brag Gloating

Author:John Steinbeck

“-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-”

Needs Littles Teach Dangerous Humility Max Flattering Good Woman Gloating

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...] "I get that you're angry—," said Patch. "I am ripped apart!" I shouted.”

Said Faces Angry Blow Patches Ripped Patch And Nora Gloating

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.”

Heart Children Happens Eye Given Space Laughing Happened Arms Our Children Crowds Curse Chests Laughed Her Eyes Backwards Veils Cousin Weasley Sirius Gloating Molly Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.”

Men Shows Action Faces Winning Enjoy Enemy Appreciate Praise Generous Gloating

Author:John Flanagan

“Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.”

Way Stills Done Moving Winning Loss Victory Losing Competition Moving Forward Temporary Good Way Winning And Losing Moving Ahead Standing Still Sulking Gloating

Author:Chuck Knox

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.”

Source: Wine Buyers Guide

“Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating”

Regret Waste Wasting Time Gloating

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”

Ifs Men Looks Ends Evil Hell Mercy Good Man Arrows Evil Man Gloating

Author:Terry Pratchett

“An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.”

Body Structure Curiosity Scientific Knowledge Gloating

Author:Marie Stopes

“I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.”

Men Stills Book Motivation He Man Fighter Chad Gloating

Author:Andre Ward

“Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.”

Way Doe Shows Behinds Smart Sitting Ears Envy Strikes Holes Teeth Right Thing Editors Pencils Thumbs Malice Manuscripts Vests Gloating Striking Out

Book:What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)

Source: What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)

“We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.”

Way Doe Form Desire Sin Pleasure Modern Pride Opposites Democratic Superiority Tempted Primal Aristocratic Sin Of Pride Gloating

Book:Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking

Source: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.”

Social Emotion Fans Football Lovers Mets Wine Bottles Solitary Hysteria Gregarious Bottles Of Wine Football Fan Wine Lovers Gloating

Book:Wine Buyers Guide

Source: Wine Buyers Guide