Boast Quotes
323 quotes by 259 authors
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
— Jane Austen
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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
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
— Samuel Beckett
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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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
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It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
— George William Foote
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Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
— Neil Kinnock
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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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
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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
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Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
— Isaac Asimov
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To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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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
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[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
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Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.
— Lori Palatnik
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
— Emmet Fox
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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
Who Wrote These Boast Quotes
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