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Boast Quotes by Paul Theroux
- 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…
- A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
More Boast Quotes
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus
- I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end… — John le Carre
- It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote
- Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. — Neil Kinnock
- A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. — Michel de Montaigne
- I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it… — Caitlin Moran
- We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington
- Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end… — Leonardo da Vinci
- Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. — Isaac Asimov