Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Robert Wilson Lynd

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Voltaire

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

Winston Churchill

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Tom Leighton

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

Llywelyn Jones

It's a great place to be gay online because no one knows who you are, where you live. They only know what you tell them. Online, you can lie. It's very easy to make up a whole different person online because you have a fake name and you can be really secretive and deceitful about it.

Fanny Brice

Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

John Chafee

I think that it would be pretty hard to do this -- the censure route --without ... talking at all with the White House, the people who are going to be censured,

Charles Saint-Evremond

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Lord Byron

A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote,/ With just enough of learning to misquote.

Bob Goodlatte

This president mocks the people, mocks the Congress, and this censure is just what he wants,

Alexander Pope

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Jonathan Swift

Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent

Seamus Heaney

No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.

Guru Nanak

Since that ,time the virtuous censure that ,man who in his folly appoints a woman, whose husband died, to ,bear children ,to another man .

Rick Boucher

I have a deep disdain for the president's actions, ... He deserves the admonishment and the censure and the rebuke of the Congress ... Not only is this the public's preference, but it is the right thing to do.