He that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesIt's all very well Eminem going on about Detroit. You have to be a bit braver to go around singing the praises of Lowestoft!
Justin HawkinsIf to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S Eliot'And everybody praised the Duke,
Who this great fight did win.'
'But what good came of it at last?'
Quoth little Peterkin.
'Why that I cannot tell', said he,
'But 'twas a famous victory.'
Robert SoutheyI believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today
Tony BlairExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshThese poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damned fool if they weren't.
Dylan ThomasThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FrancePraise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.
Basil BuntingWe are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E M ForsterFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareBooks that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Thomas Bailey AldrichWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyThe creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
Mary SartonThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganHunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
Samuel JohnsonVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellWhen one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne MooreA desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John AdamsWho cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart.
Oliver SacksModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergThe Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor StravinskyYou praise the firm restraint with which they write -
I'm with you there, of course:
They use the snaffle and the surb all right,
But where's the bloody horse?
Roy CampbellFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciAnything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus AureliusPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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