Boast Quotes - Page 10

• Really ain't one to boast, but I'm doing better than most

  Kid Ink

  Song: Ghost, Album: Rocketshipshawty, 2012

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• One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.

  Anna Holmes

  Children, Thinking, Giving

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• You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.

  Shelly Crane

  Love Is, People, Giving

  Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.13, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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• The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

  John Calvin

  Lying, Religion, May

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• The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!

  Fanny Burney

  Time, Hate, Sacrifice

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• We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Bored, Egotism

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• One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, People, Saint

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• Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prayer, Eye, Heart

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• He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Night, Men, Sky

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pope, Infallibility, Shortcomings

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.842, Everyman's Library

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• The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Men, Cost, He Man

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1684). “An essay on translated verse”, p.11

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• Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
  Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
  A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
  Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
  Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
  Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

  William Davenant

  Nice, Men, Sight

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

  Susanna Centlivre

  Honesty, Trying

  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

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• There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Two

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• He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Blessing, Love Is, Noble

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.84, Delphi Classics

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• A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Causes, Calling

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.114

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• Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

  Peter Brodie

  Wisdom, Latin, Knowledge

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• Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Girlfriend, Greek, Ships

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• It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

  George Washington

  Religious, Men, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.372

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• Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

  Mason Cooley

  Hero, Fighting, Ironic

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• It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Dirty, Men, Hands

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• A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

  Mason Cooley

  Glasses, Steel, Skyscraper

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• Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Juan, Skeptical

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