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Quotes About Boast

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
~ Abdul-Qadir Gilani
If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.
~ Ibn Hazm
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
~ Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
~ John Piper
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
The man who boasts he never made a mistake is often married to the woman who did.
~ Anonymous
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I don't want to brag, but if I go through this, and I go back to camp, I'll have something unique to talk about. I can be like, 'Hey, not only am I not a virgin, I lost my virginity to a frog-headed exotic dancer.' Will that be something to brag about or something to be ashamed of?
~ Ned Vizzini
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.
~ Bikram Choudhury
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
~ Samuel Beckett
'Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.
~ la rochefoucauld iii
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from "reality," than many of the people on whom the label "psychotic" is affixed.
~ laing ronald david iv
I've seen more stars than anyone alive. I've killed more stars than anyone will ever see.
~ Laini Taylor
Mc's be bragging about cash they collect, but them chumps are like Ray Charles cause they aint seen no money yet.
~ Lamont Coleman
My heart, but you were dovewinged, I can tell, Carrier-witted, I am bold to boast...
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years' experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience—twenty times.
~ James Ellroy
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
~ Thomas Fuller
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
~ Publilius Syrus
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea....
~ Charles Churchill
Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!
~ Charles Dickens
I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her life, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go 'meandering' about the world.
~ Charles Dickens
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
~ Charles Dickens