Boast Quotes

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast.

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

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.

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

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

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

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

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

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

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

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

Those who boast are seldom the great.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind