Debt Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debt Flattery Praise
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by. — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
