Quotes About Boastfulness

#1. I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Theophrastus

#2. False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

#3. Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence

George Orwell

#4. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)

George Orwell

#5. No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

#7. Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?

Lisa Kleypas

#8. Pal, if you don't take some wrong turns, you aren't going anywhere.

Avi

#9. If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Walt Whitman

#10. If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

Caio Terra

#11. There are no rules in live television.

Harsha Bhogle

#12. If you don't have a goal, you will score zero even if you run with the fastest speed.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future.

Jean Alesi

#14. Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.

Jules Verne

#15. We're kissing in the rain.' Her voice was hard and soft at the same time. Like the velvet armchairs. Like the black rain inked on his hand.

Deborah Levy

#16. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Ogden Nash

#17. Ever since the day my father died I've understood. So long as the king lives, I will never be free of him.

Laura Thalassa

#18. You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.

Simon R. Green

#19. I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.

Tite Kubo

#20. But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.

Agatha Christie

#21. You would think that Halloweens tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#22. Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Camille Paglia

#23. Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Aleatha Romig