Hunger 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 Johnson'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 SoutheyHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonMany 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 PriestleyPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas HobbesVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopePeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayReal 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.
SenecaExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonIt is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenIf to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell KentBooks 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 AldrichWhen all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never
MontaigneWe 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 ForsterYou 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 CampbellWhen 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 MooreThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Landor'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganThe 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 SartonAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergPraise 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 BuntingFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareThat is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less
Louis XIV Of FranceThese 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 ThomasO what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben JonsonTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater Now God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeThe sweetest of all sounds is praise.
XenophonThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisI 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 BlairWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusWhere through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Thomas GrayA 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 AdamsIt'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 HawkinsHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachAnything 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 follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell Lowell
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