It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert SitwellOne 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 GrenfellThought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric HofferFor we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise (Sonnet 106)
William ShakespeareNone knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise
Fitz-Greene HalleckIn praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraWonder is involuntary praise
Edward YoungIt'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 HawkinsHe that departs with his own honesty
For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy
Ben JonsonBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
Seneca'Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there's no better praise than that'
Kevin KeeganThe 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 StravinskyAmong the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney SmithAlways remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.
David BergFriends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly
Publilius SyrusBooks 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
MontaigneO 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 BuntingFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)
William ShakespeareBe thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander PopeA 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 AdamsOur high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T S EliotIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenHunger 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 JohnsonThese 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 ThomasAll 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 KetheTrust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater We 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 ForsterPraise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
James Russell LowellIf 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 HobbesHe who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonPraise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl BuckPraise the Lord and pass the ammunition (At Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941)
Howell ForgyMany 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 PriestleyModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli WallachFools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John GayNow God be praised, I will die in peace. (Dying words)
James WolfeThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose BierceWho 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 SacksThe 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 SartonPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W Somerset MaughamAll that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little
Oliver GoldsmithExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxAn ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter LandorPraise the bridge that carried you over.
George ColmanVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
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