Top 25 Praise Quotes of 580 - Page 18

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

Merit, Praise

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

Add, Praise

Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

Khalil Gibran

Self Esteem, Insults You, Praise

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

Karl Barth

Angel, Play, Praise

1968 Quoted in the New York Times.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Julia Quinn

Quiet, Praise, Accepting

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

Joyce Carol Oates

Ignored, Praise, Condescending

Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

John Piper

Praise, Praise God, Pleasure

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

John Dryden

Want, Praise, Dare

John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.392

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Half, Busy, Praise

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sympathy, Blame, Praise

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Praise, Equal

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

Joanne Greenberg

Praise, Damn, One Thing

Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

Joan Rivers

Praise

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Jean Rostand

Believe, Return, Praise

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

James Mackintosh

Mind, Language, Praise

Sir James Mackintosh (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume”, p.95

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

James Boswell

Men, Self, Praise

James Boswell (1820). “The life of Samuel Johnson”, p.656

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

J. D. Salinger

Real, Artist, Praise

No praise, no blame. Just so.

Isaac Marion

Blame, Praise

Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Howard Jacobson

Use, Shells, Praise

Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Honore de Balzac

Honest, Praise, Said

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

Praise, Egotism, Ifs

Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.89

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Hartley Coleridge

Poetry, Obscurity, Praise

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

Hannah More

Praise, Substitutes, Right Thing

Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.534

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

Gertrude Stein

Thinking, Praise, Think Twice

Gertrude Stein (1956). “Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933”