Praise Quotes

1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. — Baron de Montesquieu
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it… — William Wordsworth
Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises. — William Wordsworth
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. — Tryon Edwards
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin… — Sylvia Brownrigg
Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you have to face.… — Iyanla Vanzant
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser… — Ben Jonson
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. — Ben Jonson
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence… — John Greenleaf Whittier
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out… — Billy Graham
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not… — Lev Grossman
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over… — Charles Caleb Colton
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and… — Calvin Coolidge
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! — Marie Corelli
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. — Noel Coward
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to… — Russell Crowe
Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain… — Alan Dershowitz
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep… — Denis Diderot
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing… — Will Durant
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.' — Marianne Faithfull

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