Boast Quotes

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Business, Loyal Customers

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers

  W. Edwards Deming

  Loyal Customers, Focus In Business, Great Customer Service

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• People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

  Stephen Hawking

  Education, Science, People

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

  Matthew Henry

  Church, Common

  Matthew Henry “Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-II - Jeremiah to Lamentations”, Lulu.com

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Fear, Coward

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Literature, Shoulders

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.65, 谷月社

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• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Doe, Records

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

  Aeschylus

  Hens

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humanity, Literature, Becoming

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Chastity

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

  Bernard Williams

  Love, Summer, Night

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• And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Poet

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.47

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• The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vanity, Fishing, Evil

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• It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Charity, Blunders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

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• The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Losing, Modern

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion

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• We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Oil, Records, Problem

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• What has passed is already finished with.
  What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Interesting, Stills, Finished

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• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Two, Complaining

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• The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
  is like the potato. The best part is underground.

  Thomas Overbury

  Food, Men, Potatoes

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• No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Communication, Rude, Language

  Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”

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• Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

  Archilochus

  Law, Safety, Useless

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