Top 110 Boasting Quotes & Sayings

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

I'm boasting in God's Word, because I've found out His Word works.

The way I rap isn't about me boasting. Rarely will I do that.

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

I'm not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I'm a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I'm not self boasting. I'm a really good mom.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.