Censure Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Censure Foe Friendship Knows Lost Merit Praise
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under… — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
