Fame and censure with a tether
By fate are always linked together. [ Swift ]

Censure and scandal are not the same. [ Proverb ]

The villain's censure is extorted praise. [ Pope ]

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. [ Pope ]

Let those teach others who themselves excel;
And censure freely, who have written well. [ Alexander Pope ]

The death of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]

Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego. [ Beattie ]

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. [ Churchill ]

No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure escape; brick-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes: what king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? [ William Shakespeare ]

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful. [ Churchill ]

Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves. [ Juvenal ]

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure
Which is useful to them to praise which deceives them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He pardons the ravens, but visits with censure the doves. [ Juv ]

Censure's the tax a man pays the public for being eminent. [ Proverb ]

Shallow wits censure every thing that is beyond their depth. [ Proverb ]

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. [ Jonathan Swift ]

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. [ Balthasar Gracian ]

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]

Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure. [ Bacon ]

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves. [ Demosthenes ]

What is every year of a wise man's life but a censure or critic on the past? [ Pope ]

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. [ Thomas Fuller ]

We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers. [ William Shakespeare ]

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]

The censure of those that are opposed to us is the nicest commendation that can be given us. [ St. Evremond ]

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. [ Burke ]

Few people are wise enough to prefer censure which may be useful, to flattery which may betray them. [ La Roche ]

We censure the inconstancy of women when we are the victims: we find it charming when we are the objects. [ L. Desnoyers ]

When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! [ Colton ]

A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. [ Bishop Whately ]

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves. [ Addison ]

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts - both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. [ Shenstone ]

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. [ Swift ]

He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. [ Hazlitt ]

These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye. [ Steele ]

Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams horns before the walls of Jericho; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. [ J. Beaumont ]

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. [ Whately ]

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. [ L'Estrange ]

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]

No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]

It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. [ Colton ]

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case. [ Colton ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]