Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. Votes: 6
Bernard BerensonWe need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. Votes: 4
Logan Pearsall SmithThe deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. Votes: 3
Gertrude SteinWe are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Votes: 3
Samuel BeckettWe're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? Votes: 1
Tony RandallToo often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. Votes: 1
Louis L'AmourTo boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeThose who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest. Votes: 0
Lori PalatnikFaith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate. Votes: 0
Farquhar McGillivray KnowlesPassionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteHe who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerIn lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeMobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. Votes: 0
Neil KinnockPeople who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochVirtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? Votes: 0
Alexander PopeLove does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaWe boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerHe lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. Votes: 0
Richard SavageSuch is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithBut who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? Votes: 0
James ThomsonOverconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than. Votes: 0
Nikki SixxSince life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonBut he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more! Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisIf all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. Votes: 0
Ben JonsonAnd, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. Votes: 0
William CowperGreatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. Votes: 0
Marie CorelliI don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money. Votes: 0
Geoff CapesIt is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. Votes: 0
Thomas Carlyle...it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws... Votes: 0
George WashingtonIn victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. Votes: 0
Sallustthose Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... Votes: 0
Eliza HaywoodMy own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight. Votes: 0
Richard ElmanLet him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. Votes: 0
George William FooteBeing a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. Votes: 0
Patrick HenryI don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast. Votes: 0
Mike DWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! Votes: 0
Jules VerneI do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnThere is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it. Votes: 0
Peter BrodieMen may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. Votes: 0
Francois de La Rochefoucauld