Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

— Pietro Metastasio

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

— John Gay

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the…

— Charles Churchill

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

— Alexander Pope

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or…

— Patti LuPone

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

— Juvenal

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

— Christopher Morley

Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that…

— Thad Cochran

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

— Emily Dickinson

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out…

— John Locke

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

— Alexander Pope

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of…

— Giacomo Casanova

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…

— Pearl S. Buck