Top 60 Those Who Boast Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Those who boast about honor shouldn't lack in it.
Drake R. Todd
#4. Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.
Lori Palatnik
#6. Those who boast are not respected.
Laozi
#7. Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
Eliza Haywood
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
Steve Toltz
#12. When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Criss Jami
#13. 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
#14. Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
Mason Cooley
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
#19. 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
#20. To your simple existence, do not boast;
merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.
The shore of the sea is but a ghost,
compared to the depth its wholeness gives.
You exist in the miry foam;
make the ocean depths your home.
Craig Froman
#21. 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
#22. Being a Christian ... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
Patrick Henry
#23. The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Arthur Helps
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them shout for joy forever. May You shelter them, and may those who love Your name boast about You. 12 For You, Lord, bless the righteous one; You surround him with favor like a shield.
Anonymous
#29. 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
#30. You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
Oliver Goldsmith
#31. Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...
Eliza Haywood
#32. The Fringes are the place of the slack-willed, slack-jawed and slack-hued, remarked Floyd Pinken, who could comfortably boast all three of those attributes, if truth be known.
Jasper Fforde
#33. High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
William Warburton
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
Richard Elman
#38. 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
#39. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
#40. First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
Thomas Watson
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
John Gay
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.
Okakura Kakuzo
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Feel these muscles and understand how they boast the truth!
Hiromu Arakawa
#53. 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
#54. I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
#55. 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
#56. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
