Censure Quote by Joseph Addison

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider…

— Samuel Johnson

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not…

— Aristotle

“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

— Euripides

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence…

— Samuel Johnson

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

— Edmund Burke

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

— Jonathan Swift

Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is…

— Confucius

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

— Delphine de Girardin

Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred…

— Alexander Hamilton

“There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at…

— Samuel Johnson