The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and… — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
