Boast Quotes

323 quotes by 259 authors

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head… — 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 from end to end. — 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. ... Now, it seems you must… — Caitlin Moran
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,… — George Washington
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things… — Leonardo da Vinci
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. — Isaac Asimov
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem… — Paul Theroux
[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that… — Charlton Heston
Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest. — Lori Palatnik
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise… — Thomas Young

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