Boast Quotes

323 Boast quotes by 249 unique authors

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style. — Seneca the Younger
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. — Diogenes
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty. — Unknown Author
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs… — Thomas Carlyle
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope
We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. — Hugh Sidey
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many… — R. D. Laing
Tis the ignorant who boast. — Elisabeth of Wied
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and… — Dave Gorman
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. — Thomas Carlyle
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice;… — John Hancock
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves… — Brigham Young
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. — Richard Savage
Those who boast are seldom the great. — Jawaharlal Nehru
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch… — Robert Browning
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own… — Criss Jami
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. — Criss Jami
Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that… — Criss Jami
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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