If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxPraise 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 WallachMany 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 PriestleyHunger 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 JohnsonThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareThe 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 StravinskyIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergAll 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 KetheWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SenecaWe 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 ForsterWho 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 SacksIt'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 HawkinsReal joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred GrenfellPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyNecessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy
Joseph JoubertYou 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 CampbellI 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 BlairAnything 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 AureliusIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo Da VinciThese 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 ThomasWhen 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 MooreIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul RichterAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaigneThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonPraise 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 BuntingThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesBooks 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 AldrichGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay AshFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayOne should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias CanettiWonder is involuntary praise
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