Boast Quotes

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. (Richard Dawkins)
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. View quote
Matthew Henry
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end. View quote
John Dryden
Such is the patriot's boast, wherever we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. View quote
Don Marquis
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. View quote
Jane Austen
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. View quote
Richard Savage
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. View quote
Louis L'Amour
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. (Jean-Paul Marat)
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government. View quote
Thomas Paine
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. View quote
Thomas Overbury
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. View quote
Ben Jonson
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. View quote
Joseph Addison
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. View quote
Thomas Gray
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
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. View quote
Jane Austen
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? View quote
Samuel Beckett
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands. (H. L. Mencken)
I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet. View quote
Joseph Smith
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels. View quote
Enver Hoxha
By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution. View quote
Erich Ludendorff
Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore