Boast Quotes

323 Boast quotes by 249 unique authors

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces… — Orson Scott Card
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying. — Bruce Lee
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. — Alberto Moravia
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. — John F. Kennedy
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of… — Albert Einstein
As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to… — Joe Biden
I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight… — Will Cuppy
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. — Alfred Adler
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to… — H. L. Mencken
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of… — Alexander Pope
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach… — Joseph Hopkinson
The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright… — Origen
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else. — William Shakespeare
I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of… — Sam Storms
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed… — Charles Spurgeon
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to… — Pericles
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our… — Martin Jacques
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to… — Seth Shostak
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. — Thomas Overbury
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than… — Peter Cooper

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