Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims…

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

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

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

— Rabindranath Tagore