About Quote by A. A. Gill

“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason.”

— Charles Dickens

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

— John Piper

“There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why”

— Michael Winter

Those who boast are not respected.

— Laozi

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

— Bergen Evans

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your…

— Criss Jami

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

— John Steinbeck

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

— Theophrastus

Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.

— David Shields

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The Stoics, by contrast, believed that we are essentially social creatures, with a ‘natural affection’ and ‘affinity’ for all people. This forms the basis…

— Donald J. Robertson