Boast Quotes · Page 7

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

— Seneca the Younger

“A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.”

— Steven Erikson

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

A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

— Neil Kinnock

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

— Lewis Thomas

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

— Mason Cooley

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

— Rabindranath Tagore

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,…

— Corra May Harris

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays…

— Jonathan Swift

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

— Matthew Henry

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

— Anthony Trollope

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

— Hugh Sidey

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us…

— John Dryden

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not…

— Herbert Spencer

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast…

— Socrates

[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three…

— Charlton Heston

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in…

— Mary McCarthy

Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If…

— Pietro Metastasio

I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory…

— Sam Storms

“He does not make himself seen, therefore he is bright; he does not deem himself to be right, therefore he is illustrious;…

— Tao Te Ching

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

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

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

Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language,…

— Osamu Dazai

A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting…

— Samuel Smiles

Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give -Proverbs 25:14

— Bible

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

— Louis L'Amour

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

— David Luiz

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

— Tony Randall

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

— Sallust

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

— Richard Elman

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

— Aubrey Beardsley