Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Voltaire

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

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

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.

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

Some things are better praised by silence than by remark

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.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

John Podhoretz

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

John Piper

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Lucinda Williams

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

Michel de Montaigne

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Michel de Montaigne

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

George Herbert

Lord! who hath praise enough?

He's very modest, and he doesn't like to take praise. He would rather do it and have somebody else get the credit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

George Saunders

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

Hannah More

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

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Herman Melville

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