That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterThe 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 Sarton'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 SoutheyOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraThe 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 StravinskyThere 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 KeeganHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonAnything 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 AureliusWho 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 SacksVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareWe 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 ForsterAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaignePraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyWhen 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 MoorePeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesA 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 ColmanOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentThe 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 JohnsonI 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 BlairThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
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