Boast Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Conceal Cunning Cunning Cunning Indifferently Indifferently Shrewd Inspirational Love Shrewd Boast
Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from “good families.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
