"There are two motives for reading a book;……" — Bertrand Russell

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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