The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another) -the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was...
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.
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.
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
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.
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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.
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.
I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
Humour is for them the all-consoling and (mark this) the all-excusing, grace of life. Hence, it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame. If a man simply lets others pay for him, he is ‘mean,’ but if he boasts of it in a jocular manner and tw...
C" is for colonies Rightly we boast that of all the great nations Great Britain has most!
But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.
Bachelorhood: all the fun of married life and more prosperity, leaving lots of descendants to boast of their father’s memory to their fellow inmates.
