Boast Quotes

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

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?

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

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.

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

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

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.

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.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

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.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

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.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.