Boast Quotes

323 Boast quotes by 249 unique authors

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling… — John Mason Brown
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… — George Bernard Shaw
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing… — Chin-Ning Chu
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it. — Arthur Helps
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. — Samuel Johnson
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief? — William Shakespeare
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very… — Adolf Hitler
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. — Aubrey Beardsley
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and… — Wallace Stegner
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe.… — Joe Abercrombie
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live… — Edward Abbey
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of… — Thomas Gray
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to… — Jimmy Carter
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This… — Archilochus
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Unknown Author
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up… — Abraham Coles
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put… — Bill Moyers
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he… — Socrates
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is… — Unknown Author
In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which… — Warren G. Harding

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