Top 358 Boast Quotes & Sayings

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Those who boast are seldom the great.

It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about.

A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.

We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

Really ain't one to boast, but I'm doing better than most

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

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

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Those who boast are not respected.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.

You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Not many stores can boast the unmatched variety that Boots has.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

I haven't got many awards to boast of.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Children never say that their father is the smartest; instead they boast that he's the strongest.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

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

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

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

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

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

Tis the ignorant who boast.

I don't boast about being a holy person but I know that prayer can do miracles.

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults, I'll boast about all of my addictions that God has conquered, I'll boast about everything that God has conquered in my life, but there's just certain things that I'll never talk about.

Boast quietly, with decorum.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

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