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Quotes About Boast

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
~ Mark Twain
Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
~ steinbeck
It was my shame, and now it is my boast, That I have loved you rather more than most.
~ belloc hilaire ii
I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
~ Ben Carson
Major Müntzinger's boast that Germany had "many agents in England" was entirely correct. But so far from being "excellent," most of them were hopeless, many were actively disloyal, and a number were already working against Germany as double agents.
~ Ben Macintyre
in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.
~ Ben Mezrich
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
~ Joseph Addison
My family brought me up very well. I'm not one to boast, I'm more relaxed and focused on what I need to do.
~ Luke Shaw
but he boasted about the buildings as if they were his own design.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
~ Horatio Nelson
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. —Thomas Fuller
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
~ Mary Shelley
I've got two smoking guns that just look incredible, and I love to pull them out whenever I can.
~ Idris Elba
It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.
~ Nicholas Soames
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~ Bern Williams
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
~ Bernard Berenson
I am Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, and I'm a professional wrestler. I don't mean to brag or boast, but I love the recognition for it.
~ Britt Baker
They are brothers to the fox who boasted that he had made the hounds run....
~ H.L. Mencken
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads]." - Bertrand Russell
~ Bertrand Russell
We are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh. Philippians 3:3
~ Beth Moore
Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
~ Beth Moore
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?
~ Billy Graham