Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jess Walter

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Steve Vai

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Rose Tremain

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

W. Somerset Maugham

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

Yoshinori Ono

Our refueling efforts have been highly evaluated by the foreign countries, but there has also been criticism that we're running a 'free gasoline station,'

Terje Hauge

If the manager has any criticism of me I want him to say it to my face. I want a managers to talk to me after the game but before going to his news conference.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Thomas Browne

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Red Skelton

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

Mae West

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Mason Cooley

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Jean Paul

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

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Myles Munroe

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.