Boast Quotes
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.
Geoff Capes
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Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
Eliza Haywood -
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
Lao Tzu -
"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.
Mark Steyn -
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
Bill Vaughan -
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
William Wordsworth -
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
Bill Vaughan
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My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
Russell Baker -
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
John Milton -
'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.
Bernie Taupin -
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Horace Greeley -
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?
William Shakespeare
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
William Cowper -
“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
Hugh Lofting -
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
Thomas Carlyle -
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
William Hazlitt -
Tell me what you boast of and I´ll tell you what you lack!
Carlo D'Este -
Those who boast are not respected.
Lao Tzu
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
Seneca the Younger -
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.
Farquhar McGillivray Knowles -
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne