Top 100 Boast Quotes
#2. Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#3. My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
Richard Elman
#4. Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
Eraldo Banovac
#5. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
#6. First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
Thomas Watson
#7. The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#9. Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
John Hancock
#10. Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
John Gay
#11. Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.
Thomas Young
#12. We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#13. If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
Brigham Young
#14. 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.
Kingsley Martin
#15. Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself - I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not!
Charles Dickens
#16. One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,
ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.
Okakura Kakuzo
#17. We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. Feel these muscles and understand how they boast the truth!
Hiromu Arakawa
#19. 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
#20. I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
#21. 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.
Edward Gibbon
#22. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#23. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
#24. Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
Thomas Moore
#25. calling something 'blessed' has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble," observes writer Jessica Bennett.[12]
John Ortberg
#26. Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Isaac Watts
#27. I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.
Joyce Carol Oates
#28. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.
Okakura Kakuzo
#29. Tip #4
Skinny-dip at will!
(Idea)
When single boast about finding your inner most happy place and hold on to it Odds are once married you can kiss personal space Good-Bye.
Hazel Cartwright
#30. Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. Love never fails you.
Brandon Heath
#31. Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
#32. Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.
David Hewson
#33. No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
Herbert Spencer
#34. I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.
John Mackey
#35. Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
Mason Cooley
#36. The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
Oscar Wilde
#37. When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Criss Jami
#38. We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
Steve Toltz
#39. We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#40. All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
Michael Drayton
#41. Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
Eliza Haywood
#42. Those who boast are not respected.
Laozi
#43. 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.
J.K. Rowling
#44. Being a Christian ... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
Patrick Henry
#45. The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Arthur Helps
#46. I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.
Friedrich Wohler
#47. No one on the planet is richer than God;
He does not boast of riches He cannot give.
No one on the planet is wiser than God;
God does not boast of wisdom He does not possess.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Samuel Johnson
#49. Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.
Michael Crichton
#50. 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
#52. 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 ...
Corra May Harris
#53. There were no ideas in music, only touch and instinct and sometimes grace - the mechanical tools - and that among those who were given the tools, only a few, a scant few, would be able to tell you something true.
Will Boast
#54. 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.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
#56. When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.
Owl City
#57. You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.
Adolf Hitler
#58. Love is patient and kind, it doesn't boast, it isn't proud, it isn't easily pissed off, it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always keeps on doing the damn thing, love never lets you down.
Brandon Massey
#59. Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.
Isabella Bird
#60. 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.
John Buchan
#61. But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
Anonymous
#62. A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.
Steven Erikson
#63. It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.
Calvin Coolidge
#64. Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Diogenes
#65. Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.
Lee Roberson
#66. If ever I boast of seeing a fairer face in all this wide world, may I die a liar's death.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#67. Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming
#68. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
Edward Everett Hale
#69. It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
#70. 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
#71. The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,
David Bentley Hart
#73. Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
William Hazlitt
#75. I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man's inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.
Coco J. Ginger
#76. The Gods hate hubris in a man almost more than any trait. Remember the boastful words of Odysseus to Poseidon after the fall of Troy? He paid for it with ten years of his life, and the lives of all his men. Retract your boast before something bad happens!
Gary Corby
#77. He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.
Publilius Syrus
#78. Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon.
Amah Lambert
#79. Mere professors can boast - but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#81. 13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
Anonymous
#82. We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
Ida Tarbell
#83. Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian
to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#84. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed
R.D. Laing
#85. Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
#86. Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are
Orhan Pamuk
#87. We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
Hugh Sidey
#88. 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
#89. Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.
Ogyu Sorai
#90. I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that l the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Anonymous
#91. When you are a success, your old friends will boast of your accomplishments and your new friends will celebrate your achievements. Your old friends will say " i knew you when you were.." Don't worry about them, their story ends there.
Crystal Evans
#92. Protestations of happiness could sound almost boasting to those whose happiness is incomplete. One did not boast of perfect skin to one affected by dermatitis; for the same reason, perhaps, one should take care in proclaiming one's happiness.
Alexander McCall Smith
#93. How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#95. Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
John Milton
#96. Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.
Mike Royko
#99. Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus
#100. While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
Gaston Leroux
