Events Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— William Penn

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

— Catherine the Great

False praise is worse than no praise.

— Felix Dennis

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

— Joanne Greenberg

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

— Anonymous

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't see why people can't praise when they see something done well - even if it is by a woman.

— Karen Bardsley

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to dislike people…

— Barbara Pym