Boast Quotes

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Humanity, Rather, Seem

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen

Nothing, Humility, Sometimes

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Ignorance, Become

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken

Someone, Woman, Put

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Coward, Known

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Others, Owe, Brag

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Business, Friends, Service

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen Hawking

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Matthew Henry

God, Themselves, Church

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour

Men, Often, Seen

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

Woman, Cannot, Her

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Logan P. Smith

Two, Others, While

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus

Bold, Beside, Hen

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
E. W. Howe

Show, Married, Morality

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

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust

Nature, Human, May

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis

Family, Start, Tell

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Horatio Nelson

Truth, Night, Made

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

Stupid, Nothing, Find

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
John le Carre

End, Father, Book

It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
Rob Sheffield

Love, Amazing, Through

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

Hope, Young, Cry

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
Will Cuppy

Age, Poetry, Person

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
J. D. Hayworth

Good, Money, Country

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!
Jason Isaacs

Vote, Times, Name

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
Julian Barnes

Love, Power, Times

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
Tony Randall

Death, Country, Penalty

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
Maurice Saatchi

Business, Proud, Used

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.
Mike Royko

Conscience, National, Hollywood

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus

Nature, Courage, Law

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