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 Copy Share Image
Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it. — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image