Praise Quotes
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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Mother Teresa
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Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.
Raashi Khanna
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Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
William Morley Punshon
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We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.
Cecil Frances Alexander
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
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There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.
Kate Langley Bosher
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An addiction to a fix of praise-
Rely on me to say it’s okay-
There’s only room for one in the sun-
There was only one of me and you once
Mike Skinner
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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
William Cobbett
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But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.
Martin Luther
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There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
Edmund Morris
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If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.
Jonathan Swift
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Jonathan Swift
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
William Lewis Safir
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Plato
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
William Wordsworth
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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
Anthony Trollope
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
William Ernest Henley
