Famous quotes containing the word boast:
“Popularity—The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I, a virgin, can make my frank boast that I communicate to no mortal man my secret counsels except to such as I have chosen on account of their taciturnity; then, if these secrets are later discovered, I know whom to accuse.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)