Abuse Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Abuse from those who occasionally praise is considered to be personally offensive, and they who give personal offence will sometimes make the world too…

— Anthony Trollope

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

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that…

— Anonymous

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe…

— Geneen Roth

“Our receptivity to praise stands in no relationship to our vulnerability to mean disdain and spiteful abuse. No matter how stupid such abuse is,…

— Thomas Mann

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

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

— William Penn

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

— Thomas Fuller

An honest man is hurt by praise unjustly bestowed

— French Proverb

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience…

— Demosthenes