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Vaunt Quotes

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

Aeschines
Real, Men, Vaunt

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

Lord Byron
Hymns, Hypocrisy, Vaunt
Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

Edmund Spenser
Hands, Victory, Vaunt
Edmund Spenser (1852). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...”, p.214

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!

William Shakespeare
Men, Vaunt, Cracks
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

Charles Kingsley
Roots, Law, Vaunt
Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.53

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Alexander Pope
Success, Race, Vaunt
Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.276

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