What costs little is less esteemed. [ Proverb ]
Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed;
But honesty once pawned is never redeemed. [ Middleton ]
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. [ Pascal ]
Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Associate with the good, and you will be esteemed one of them. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. [ Dryden ]
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [ Horace ]
How many things have we esteemed that we despise, and how many joys have resulted in afflictions!
However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. [ Bacon ]
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed she gives him success. [ Joubert ]
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]
The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all; among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. [ Lewis Vertoman ]
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]
Reputation is rarely proportioned, to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit, they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed. [ St. Evremond ]
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised by it, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. [ Pascal ]
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means. [ Ben Jonson ]
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]
Flowers are esteemed by us, not so much on account of their extrinsic beauty - their glowing hues and genial fragrance - as because they have long been regarded as emblems of mortality - because they are associated in our minds with the ideas of mutation and decay. [ Bovee ]
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]