Top 100 Boast Quotes
#1. 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.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#3. I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;* but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
Anonymous
#4. I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
Jane Austen
#6. None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch
#7. And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
William Cowper
#8. It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.
Katharine Whitehorn
#9. People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. 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?
Edward Abbey
#11. If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
Bertrand Russell
#12. A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.
Aman Jassal
#13. 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
#14. If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride.
Ibn Hazm
#15. Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag!
It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.
Prerak Trivedi
#17. 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?
James Russell Lowell
#18. A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
Emily Post
#19. She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.
Lao-Tzu
#20. Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#21. But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!
William Shakespeare
#22. Financially, I'm certainly not a rich man. I spent half my savings just to get on this ship, and by the time we drop anchor in Callao I'll have less than $2k to my name. At 31 years of age, that's nothing to boast about. But I can't say I'm all that worried.
Niall Doherty
#23. For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.
Aeschylus
#24. We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
Tony Randall
#25. Then to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vaine, Under what torments inwardly I groane; While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With
John Milton
#26. Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#28. A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.
Thomas F. Wilson
#29. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
#30. Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Marie Corelli
#31. Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are things I could boast about, but I'd rather show than tell.
Amanda Bouchet
#32. What a villain you are, to boast of killing women and children of your own nation! What will God say when you appear before him?" "He will say," replied he, "that I was a very clever fellow.
David Livingstone
#33. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
George William Foote
#34. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.
Anonymous
#35. EPH2.8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: EPH2.9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Anonymous
#36. Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
William Shakespeare
#37. He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.
Robert Graves
#38. Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.
Pietro Metastasio
#39. People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris Murdoch
#40. I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
Benjamin Carson
#42. The main expressed goal for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year, 1957/8, was to study "the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes." This wasn't a secret assignment, you understand, but a proud public boast. In
Bill Bryson
#43. How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.
Washington Irving
#44. A tuna can only boast in a pond, but a whale can boast even in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.
Nancy Dunnan
#46. We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.
Muhammad Asad
#48. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour
#49. 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?
Thomas Day
#50. Glory in your weaknesses. Paul said, "I am going to boast only about how weak I am and how great God is to use such weakness for his glory."21
Rick Warren
#51. It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws ...
George Washington
#52. He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.
John Calvin
#53. Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Alexander Pope
#54. 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.
Max Lucado
#55. Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
Lao-Tzu
#56. You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast.
Ayn Rand
#57. Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
Ovid
#58. Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
Winston Churchill
#59. The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.
Henri Peyre
#60. To replace bricks with bricks is restoration," he said. "But to replace bricks with hewn stone is defiance. To rebuild what was destroyed is restoration, but to boast of rebuilding stronger and greater than before is defiance.
Jonathan Cahn
#61. Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen
#62. I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.
George Whitefield
#63. 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
#64. Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.
Hugh Lofting
#65. The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.
Seth Shostak
#66. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
Criss Jami
#67. Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.
Virgil
#68. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
Neil Kinnock
#71. 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.
Edward Irving
#72. We Boast Best in the Cross When We Bear It
John Piper
#73. I never prophesy," he declared pompously. "It is true that I have the habit of being always right - but I do not boast of it.
Agatha Christie
#74. Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.
Donna Lynn Hope
#75. Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#76. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.
Warren G. Harding
#78. Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
Nikki Sixx
#79. How right you are." She shivered. "Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare the advantages of various ultramodern bugs ... I don't know how they can stand it.
John Brunner
#80. Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne
#81. Some people talk a lot about - even boast of - the Spirit, but their lives do not bear His fruit. Others
Francis Chan
#82. The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
Bertrand Russell
#83. 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
#84. The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.
Paul Theroux
#85. I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast,
But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast.
Mike D
#86. The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry ... He's risen!
Charles R. Swindoll
#87. 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!
Joseph Hopkinson
#88. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
Mary Shelley
#89. Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...
Eliza Haywood
#90. In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Sallust
#91. Do not boast about tomorrow, y for you do not know what a day may bring.
Anonymous
#92. Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
Brennan Manning
#93. A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
Mason Cooley
#94. A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Peter Cooper
#95. [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
Blaise Pascal
#96. I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.
Benvenuto Cellini
#97. I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.
Bernard Cornwell
#100. A man shall not boast of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise does ill come seldom
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