Censure Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

— Winston Churchill

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Fool's praise is censure

— Proverb

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

— Thomas Jefferson

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

— Alexander Pope

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

— Wendell Phillips

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in…

— Samuel Richardson

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

— Pietro Aretino