65 quotes found
“Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.”
“A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.”
“Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.”
“The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.”
“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.”
“Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”
“Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.”
“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”
“It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
“I would have praised you more had you praised me less.”
“Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.”
“Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.”
“As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."”
“With faint praises one another damn.”
“Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity”
“Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.”
“Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.”
“Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.”
“Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.”
