Boast Quotes

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

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

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Boast quietly, with decorum.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

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?

You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly ­surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

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.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.