"Boast is always a cry of despair, except……" — Bernard Berenson

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it… - Bernard Berenson

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

— Bernard Berenson

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32 Quotes by Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired…
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or…
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness…
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self…
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to…

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More Boast Quotes

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book… — John le Carre
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. — Neil Kinnock
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. — Michel de Montaigne
I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ...… — Caitlin Moran
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the… — George Washington
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know… — Leonardo da Vinci
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. — Isaac Asimov

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