Panegyric Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. — Samuel Johnson
• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from… — George Eliot
• A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb
• No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.… — Oscar Wilde
• The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson
• When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — Jonathan Swift
• Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. — Phineas Fletcher
• I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden

Who Wrote These Panegyric Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Panegyric Quotes as follows:

• 2 Panegyric Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Panegyric Quote by George Eliot
• 1 Panegyric Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• 1 Panegyric Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 Panegyric Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Panegyric Quote by Jonathan Swift
• 1 Panegyric Quote by Phineas Fletcher
• 1 Panegyric Quote by John Dryden