Behinds Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has…

— Tryon Edwards

We praise people when goes beyond but hate while with us.

— Suman Aakrosh

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with…

— Anushka Shetty

Praise is something when a person tells you about yourself that you have suspected all along.

— Vikrant Parsai

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

— Francis Bacon

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

— Jean Rostand

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly…

— John Climacus

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only…

— Dale Carnegie

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon