#boast

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #completely #end #father #grew

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. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#against #angle #boasting #bragging #dance

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accuracy #any #argument #boasting #case

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion. ↗

— Bauvard

#compassion #emotion #funny #humor #funny

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. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#i #leaning #like #nude #sleep

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ↗

— Richard Savage

#build #face #foolish #generous #lives

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#among #boasting #carts #cleveland #delight

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

— John Zimmerman

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