Boast Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

— Jean Paul

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

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

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

— Horace

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high…

— Thomas Sprat

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

— Thomas Fuller

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

— Jean Paul

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

— Latin Proverb

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

— Kate Langley Bosher

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on…

— Luc de Clapiers