Top 25 Boast Quotes of 50 - Page 2

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Poverty, Advertisements, Boast

Those who boast are seldom the great.

Boast

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Coquetry, Boast

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

Max Lucado

Dollars, Goodness, Boast

Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

Boast quietly, with decorum.

Mason Cooley

Decorum, Boast

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

Edward Abbey

New York, Boast, New Yorkers

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

William Shakespeare

4th Of July, Boast

'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 271

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

William Shakespeare

Time, Boast

William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakspere's songs and sonnets, illustr. by J. Gilbert [ed. by H. Staunton. Interleaved.].”, p.65

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

Susanna Centlivre

Honesty, Trying, Boast

Susanna Centlivre (1760). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift”, p.282

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

Seneca the Younger

Style, Riding, Boast

The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults, I'll boast about all of my addictions that God has conquered, I'll boast about everything that God has conquered in my life, but there's just certain things that I'll never talk about.

Sam Childers

Addiction, Boast

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He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

Publilius Syrus

Favors, Back Again, Boast

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

Ovid

Beauty, Heaven, Boast

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Oscar Wilde

Worst, Things To Do, Boast

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Mike Royko

Hollywood, Likes, Boast

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

Michel de Montaigne

Chastity, Tempted, Boast

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.884, 谷月社

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

Men, Plague, Boast

"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Mason Cooley

Love, Elements, Boast

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

John Milton

Done, Boast

John Milton (1872). “English Poems”, p.237

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Citizens, Boast

Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

Joe Abercrombie

Hero, Fool, Boast

Joe Abercrombie (2016). “The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War”, p.365, Del Rey

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Towns, Like Me, Boast

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.138

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

Gertrude Stein

Listening, Attention, Boast

Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.1119, e-artnow