Boast Quotations

Al Jolson was my first husband. He always used to boast that he was spoiling me for any man who might come after him. I think Al sensed that it wasn't easy for me being married to an American institution... Was he right about spoiling me? I'm sorry. I couldn't possibly say. I couldn't be that indiscreet.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ...

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

There are very, very few companies that can boast of a balanced budget year after year without interruption.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions.

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

I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.

There is no confrontation in our country -- neither racial nor religious. There are no wars on our land, ... Name another post-Soviet state which can boast the same values.

When his name is added to those of Pleyel and Kozeluch, Scottish melodies can boast of being harmonized by the greatest luminaries of modern music,

God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask, with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart, the purity of mind, the holiness of motive.

It is an assault upon the very core of what generations of our citizens have been proud to boast of, at home and abroad, as the essence of the Australian character -- the

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

Texans... never pass up an oppurtunity to boast whence they hail.

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

who boast of friendship with the United States.

Yes! the door of emigration to Texas was closed upon the only sister republic worthy of the name which Mexico could boast of in this new world.

We had two other teams that are also 2-1. We had a phenomenal year, and we couldn't be more proud of them. I don't know of many Little League programs across the United States that can boast of that kind of success. We have a great league and a great bunch of kids.

Well may they boast themselves an ancient Nation; For they were bred e'er manners were in fashion

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

The Orlando area's job market continues to show stability, with a sold level of opportunities spanning the corporate, private and public sectors. The market also continues to boast one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates, which stood at 3.3 percent at the end of November.

The three institutions enjoy high reputation worldwide and boast overall strength in the capital market.

Proud crested Fiend, the World's worst foe, Ambition, canst thou boast one deed, hence no unsightly horrors flow, Nor private peace is seen to bleed?

The National Human Capital Summit will feature some of the most provocative and insightful thought leaders in the industry, and will boast an audience of more than 1,000 senior-level human capital practitioners. With this sponsorship, we'll gain additional visibility at the event and augment the exposure provided by our executive presenters.

The boast that the United States is now the world's only superpower has a grim undertow in the area of human rights; no one can tell Washington what to do or not do, no matter how egregious its cruelties.

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: / For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived

I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are da

It will definitely be an edge for us if we can boast of industry-certified animators. Studios will be confident that the people they are hiring are industry-ready and require little or no additional training.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

If there is not to be a shared stadium it would be good to think that, in the future, the city of Liverpool would continue to a represent a major center for football excellence -- one which would boast two world-class facilities.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

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

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

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

I don't see how we couldn't be in. I don't feel like I've got to boast or pump up what we've done. That should already be happening.

I don't want to boast but I've put a lot of work into that and I feel it's deserved. Now that it's translating into wins, it feels a lot better. I guess it's alright when you read, 'Jones scored 24 in a loss,' but now we have a three-game win streak going - it's totally different. It feels a lot better.

Gordon Brown's proudest boast is that, during his stewardship, the U.K. economy has consistently grown from one quarter to the next. The Bank Governor seems to be saying that this achievement was primarily a 'nice' decade phenomenon, and not the hard-won and well-merited result of outstandingly successful policies.

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

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

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

Boast quietly, with decorum.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

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

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

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

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

You could get caught up in that whole atmosphere, but he's really casual and calm about things and doesn't boast about his accomplishments, which makes it easier to talk to him.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.

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

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

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

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.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

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

Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.

Now boast thee, death, in thy possession liesA lass unparalleled.

It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual

Those who boast are seldom the great.

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

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

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

A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

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

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