Top 25 Praise Quotes of 580 - Page 10

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Flattery, Praise, Easy

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

George Orwell

Book, Facts, Praise

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blame, Madness, Praise

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Praise, Made, Modest

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

El Greco

Art, Suffering, Praise

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

Christopher Hitchens

Writing, Editors, Praise

Christopher Hitchens (2013). “Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy, Praise, Envious

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.246

Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.

Bob Burg

Effort, Want, Praise

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

Blaise Pascal

May, Praise, Conviction

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Benjamin Franklin

Men, Deeds, Praise

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

Praise, Standards, Higher Standards

Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

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

Alexander Pope

Arrogance, Quality, Praise

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

Praise, Deceitful, Censure

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

Love, Praise, Virtue

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.181

What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

William Cowper

May, Praise, Admire

William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.26