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Alexander Pope Quotes about Praise

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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

Alexander Pope
Arrogance, Quality, Praise

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Alexander Pope
Friendship, Merit, Praise
Homerus, Alexander Pope (1718). “The Iliad of Homer”

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope
Literature, Praise, Satire
William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

Alexander Pope
Faults, Blame, Praise
Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.88

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Alexander Pope
Villain, Praise, Censure
Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.302

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