Boast Quotes

323 Boast quotes by 249 unique authors

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. — Henry David Thoreau
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. — Bernard Williams
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their… — Robert Winston
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. — Jorge Luis Borges
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. — Henry David Thoreau
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of… — Horace Greeley
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident… — Joseph Conrad
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. — John Steinbeck
I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and… — Benjamin Carson
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must… — Baruch Spinoza
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie. — Isabel Allende
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives… — C.S. Lewis
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. — John Steinbeck
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as… — Baruch Spinoza
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. — Jane Austen
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living… — Brennan Manning
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do… — Joyce Carol Oates
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. — Alexandra Ivy

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