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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. -- Menander
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit. -- Herb Alpert
With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever. -- Les Dawson
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. -- Bobby Darin
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on. -- Tom Hiddleston
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. -- Charles Bukowski
Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. -- Brandon Routh
It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself. -- Caryl Chessman
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk. -- Simon Sinek
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living. -- Peter Blair Henry
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. -- Pearl S. Buck
Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. -- T.F. Hodge
I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more. -- Patrick Rothfuss
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. -- Nathaniel Branden
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado. -- Brandon Mull
I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado. -- Jamie Foxx
Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado. -- James C. Collins
We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? -- Marie Colvin
I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure. -- Emily Blunt
As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands. -- Birdman
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo. -- James P. Gorman
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence. -- Frank Pittman
Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price. -- Marie Colvin
I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders. -- Alexander McCall Smith
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences. -- Gene Luen Yang
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity. -- Brian Molko
Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado. -- Sarah Hall
Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado. -- Paul Johnson
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado. -- Frank Black
It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick. -- Kobe Bryant
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. -- K. D. Lang
I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.' -- Lorde
The hallmark of insecurity is bravado. -- Brandon Sanderson
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God. -- Blaise Pascal
I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado. -- Simon Baker
Thereâ??s no room for bravado when youâ??re alone in the bush. -- Les Stroud
In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado. -- Ka
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado. -- Louisa May Alcott
None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy. -- Richelle Mead

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