Boast Quote by Edward Irving

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

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

— Albert Payson Terhune

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

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

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

— Samuel Beckett

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

— Bernard Berenson

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

— Aman Jassal

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

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

— Ann Radcliffe

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

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To…

— William Wordsworth