Quotes of: Boast Keyword

Those who boast about honor shouldn't lack in it.

The Killing Trial

Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are

Snow

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

Thomas Overbury

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

Maurice Saatchi

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

W. Edwards Deming

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

Julie Burchill

Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

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

James Thomson

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

Aeschylus

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

H. L. Mencken

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

Eminem

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

King Hussein

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Tim Cahill

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Two Chainz

Paul saith, 'Not of works, lest any man should boast.' Now, faith excludes all boasting. The hand which receives charity does not say, 'I am to be thanked for accepting the gift'; that would be absurd. When the hand conveys bread to the mouth it does...

All of Grace

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

Meditations

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

Padma Lakshmi