Vaunt Quotes

• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Aeschines

  Real, Men, Noble

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• And thou, all-shaking thunder,
  Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
  Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
  That makes ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Cracks, World

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

  Lord Byron

  Hymns, Hypocrisy, Praise

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

  Charles Kingsley

  Roots, Law, Grows

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.53

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• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Men, Fire

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

  Edmund Spenser

  Hands, Victory, Unjust

  Edmund Spenser (1852). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...”, p.214

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

  Alexander Pope

  Success, Race

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.276

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• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Men, Court Judges

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.

  James B. Weaver

  Struggle, Taken, Law

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• True love is humble, thereby is it known;
  Girded for service, seeking not its own;
  Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

  Abraham Coles

  Love, Humble, Self

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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