Boast Quotes

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

— Stephen Hawking

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

— Michel de Montaigne

“A river can only boast when it is full of fish.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

— Mason Cooley

Those who boast are not respected.

— Laozi

Those who boast are seldom the great.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

— Mason Cooley

“The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

— Arthur Helps

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

— Gertrude Stein

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— John Piper

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

— Samuel Beckett

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

— Virgil

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All…

— William C. Bryant

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in…

— Thomas Day

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a…

— Bill Vaughan

Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and…

— Cassandra Clare

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the…

— Sallust

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

— Michael Drayton

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in…

— Warren G. Harding

We definitely have a lot of talent in India for football. It is great to see football's growing popularity and I really…

— Suresh Raina

As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But…

— Joe Biden

[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some…

— Blaise Pascal

When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who…

— Ann Coulter

I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too…

— Jean-Paul Marat

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he…

— Mao Zedong

You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while…

— Cassandra Clare

If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question,…

— J. C. Ryle

Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while…

— Karl Barth

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to…

— Sigmund Freud

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and…

— Lewis Carroll