Boast Quotes

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.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

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.

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