It 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.
CleopatraThere are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay AshFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayAll people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him, and rejoice
William KetheNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellThe 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 StravinskyAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesHunger 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 JohnsonOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiMany a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J B PriestleyWe 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 ForsterFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferA 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 AdamsPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxThat 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 Bunting'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareAnything 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 AureliusAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James Wolfe'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 SoutheyWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater I 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 BlairHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotIf 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.
Seneca
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