Boast Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on…

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Bernard Berenson

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

— Robert Graves

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

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your…

— Criss Jami

Those who boast are not respected.

— Laozi

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me…

— Martin Amis

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure…

— Robert Falcon Scott

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

— Terry Gilliam

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good…

— Chris Martin

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there…

— George Orwell