People Who Boast Quotes

#1. 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

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

Iris Murdoch

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

Stephen Hawking

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

Geoff Capes

#5. There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

Marcus Aurelius

#6. 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.

Shelly Crane

#7. Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

Angela Carter

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Some people talk a lot about - even boast of - the Spirit, but their lives do not bear His fruit. Others

Francis Chan

#13. I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.

Bennett Cerf

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Henri Nouwen

#16. We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#17. 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.

Thomas Bulfinch

#18. In the United States, numbers impress us. We gauge the success of an event by how many people attend or come forward. We measure churches by how many members they boast. We are wowed by big crowds.

Francis Chan

#19. Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

Criss Jami

#20. If God used only experts and people of renown, some could boast in their own wisdom, but God's way of doing things is not the same as our way. We ordinary people have been given power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit and are called to love others (John 13:34).

Edward T. Welch

#21. I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us

Francis Hughes

#22. 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.

Kim Il-sung

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.

Steve Toltz

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Samuel Beckett

#33. Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are

Orhan Pamuk

#34. You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they can keep a stone in their pocket seven years, turn it at the end of that time, keep it seven years longer, and hurl it and hit their mark at last.

Charlotte Bronte

#35. Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Mason Brown

#36. It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions ... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.

Tony Benn

#37. Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says.
"Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.

Yiyun Li

#38. Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I'd rather hang out with real people, and real people don't have to boast.

Charles F. Glassman

#39. If you are courageous, people say you are boastful or "too known". You either choose to accept what they say to you and you need to accept it with its consequences. The consequence is that you will remain where you are!

Israelmore Ayivor