Boast Quotes · Page 6

If you made a better rat than a human, that's not much to boast about.

— Sirius Black

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing's sicker than people who are proud of doing bad things and boast about it.

— Anonymous

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

— Publilius Syrus

“Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

— Steinbeck

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

— Eliza Haywood

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

— George Washington

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

— Marie Corelli

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

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Thomas Day

“What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as if it…

— Anonymous

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to…

— John Fowles

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of…

— James Gates Percival

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to…

— Bertrand Russell

By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the…

— Max Anders

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

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

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

[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a…

— Francis Darwin

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I…

— J. C. Ryle

Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you…

— Georgette Heyer

Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by…

— Pope Leo X

It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical…

— William Wordsworth

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few…

— Mark Twain

All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and…

— Upton Sinclair

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

— Isabel Allende

Children never say that their father is the smartest; instead they boast that he's the strongest.

— Patrik Baboumian

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

— Alberto Moravia

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

— Ovid

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

— Anonymous

I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast.

— Mike D

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

— Angela Carter

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

— Seneca the Younger