If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly…

By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign…

— Erich Ludendorff

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity…

— Thomas Bulfinch

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To…

— William Wordsworth

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with…

— William Shakespeare

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

— Ann Radcliffe

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order…

— Horatio Nelson

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

— Aman Jassal

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

— Bernard Berenson

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

— Samuel Beckett

“in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.”

— Ben Mezrich

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

— Amit Kalantri

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far…

— Anonymous

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

— Albert Payson Terhune

It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset