Praise Quotes - Page 14

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.