Praise Quotes

1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee. — Robert Herrick
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. — Homer
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. — Bertrand Russell
It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the… — Joseph Hall
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits;… — Philip James Bailey
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone. — John Ruskin
With faint praises one another damn. — William Wycherley
Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? — Randall Jarrell
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy — Joseph Joubert
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti
I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence… — Tony Blair
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting… — Bob Dylan
Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way,… — Dorothy Wordsworth
Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. — Phineas Fletcher
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands. — Ebenezer Elliott
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in… — Leon Battista Alberti
You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back… — Chin-Ning Chu
Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and… — Anita Roddick
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name… — Basil Bunting

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