Quotes with boast

  • The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.

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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Aeschylus Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Mason Brown Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
    The New York Times (12 December 2004)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Ben Jonson If all you boast of your great art be true;
    Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio VI, To Alchemists, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aubrey Beardsley No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
    Aubrey Beardsley
     
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  • Edgar W. Howe None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Stephen Hawking People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • John Dryden Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Jonathan Swift The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Seneca Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Beilby Porteus Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Samuel Beckett We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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