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Quotes About Boast

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.
~ Willie Geist
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.
~ Isabella Bird
Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
~ Eliza Haywood
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
~ William Wordsworth
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.
~ Thomas Fuller
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
~ Thomas Fuller
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
~ Thomas Gray
self-gratulation
~ Orson Scott Card
Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
~ Walter Kirn
Philippians 3:3 instructs, "Serve God by his Spirit . . . boast in Christ Jesus . . . put no confidence in the flesh." It will not only satisfy your being but will also build intimacy in your relationship with him.
~ Charles Stanley
The reason it looked simple," Smith later boasted, "was that professionals were doing it." 2 TRAITOR'S HOUSE Seoul Twenty miles to the northeast, the citizens of Seoul waited anxiously, bracing themselves for the coming Americans.
~ Hampton Sides
The kindest souls are ever Those who sin and suffer most, And who thoughtfully endeavor To forget whereof men boast.
~ leibfreed edwin ii
Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~ Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.
~ Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~ Jane Austen
It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about.
~ A. A. Gill
He told her he "controlled every court in Indiana." For $30, he could get someone to sign an affidavit to anything he dictated, he boasted. For $50, he could get a man killed.
~ Timothy Egan
We are the law itself—the same boast would be heard in Indiana
~ Timothy Egan
His] modesty... reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
~ Will Rogers
I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.
~ William Hope Hodgson
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
~ Henry Ford
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw