Boasting Quotes
86 quotes by 73 authors
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a…
— Zadie Smith
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
— Gertrude Stein
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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
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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
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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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Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer…
— Cassandra Clare
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You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,†said Will. “I discovered that fact while investigating the symbol.…
— Cassandra Clare
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I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if…
— C.S. Lewis
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the…
— Frederick Douglass
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her…
— Lisi Harrison
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You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most…
— John Fowles
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Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.
— Cressida Cowell
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Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
— Albert Payson Terhune
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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
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To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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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
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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
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