Every man Quote by Sydney Smith

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

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

— William James

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties…

— Victor Hugo

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has…

— Tryon Edwards

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

— Augustus Hare

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

— Francis Bacon

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the…

— John Ruskin

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

— Latin Proverb

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly…

— Jonathan Swift