Argument Quote by Arthur Helps

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

— Alison Tyler

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

— Vincent McNabb

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is…

— Samuel Johnson

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

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

— William Cowper

“We delight in marvelous things. One proof of that is that everyone embellishes somewhat when telling a story in the assumption he is pleasing…

— Oliver Pötzsch

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

— T. S. Eliot

“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.”

— C.S. Lewis

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

— William Penn