Boast Quotes

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

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

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

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

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