Envy is a kind of praise. [ Gay ]
Praise is always pleasant. [ Proverb ]
Praising what is lost,
Makes the remembrance dear. [ William Shakespeare ]
Music is the child of praise. [ Thomas Ken ]
Praise a hill, but keep below. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Good things should be praised. [ Shakespeare ]
True praise roots and spreads. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Faint praise is disparagement. [ Proverb ]
Their silence is praise enough. [ Ter ]
Praise not the day before night. [ Proverb ]
Praise the sea, but keep on land. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Even too much praise is a burden. [ Proverb ]
Solid pudding against empty praise. [ Pope ]
Praise is the reflection of virtue. [ Bacon ]
Old praise dies unless you feed it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Alas! the praise given to the ear
Never was nor never can be sincere. [ Miss Landon ]
Here lies one Wood enclosed in wood,
One Wood within another.
The outer wood is very good.
We cannot praise the other. [ Epitaph ]
Praise from an enemy smells of craft. [ Milton ]
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. [ Xenophon ]
He who loves praise, loves temptation. [ Thomas Wilson ]
He hurts me most who lavishly commends. [ Churchill ]
Praise a fool, and you water his folly. [ Proverb ]
If you mean to profit, learn to praise. [ Churchill ]
Brevity is a great praise of eloquence. [ Cicero ]
Sure, of qualities demanding praise,
More go to ruin fortunes, than to raise. [ Pope ]
He who praises everybody praises nobody. [ Johnson ]
Praise the bridge that carried you over. [ Geo. Colman (the Younger) ]
Praise and blame; but do not exaggerate. [ Al-Iraki ]
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. [ Broadhurst ]
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. [ Homer ]
Praise day at night, and life at the end. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The villain's censure is extorted praise. [ Pope ]
Praise none too much, for all are fickle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Praise is the best diet for us, after ail. [ Sydney Smith ]
The rising winds
And falling springs,
Birds, beasts, all things
Adore him in their kinds.
Thus all is hurled
In sacred hymns and order, the great chime
And symphony of nature. [ Henry Vaughan ]
We give to necessity the praise of virtue. [ Quinct ]
All are wont to praise him who is no more. [ Thucydides ]
Praise is only praise when well addressed. [ Gay ]
What woman can resist the force of praise? [ Gay ]
Praise a fool and you may make him useful. [ Danish Proverb ]
Praise not the ford till you are safe over. [ Proverb ]
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]
The love of praise
Fills life with fine amenities. Not all
Who live have pleasant tempers, and not all
The gift of gracious manners, or the love
Of nobler motive higher meed than praise. [ J. G. Holland ]
Angels contented with their face in heaven.
Seek not the praise of men. [ Milton ]
Earth with her thousand voices praises God. [ Coleridge ]
Lend me thy clarion goodness! let me try
To sound the praise of merit ere it dies.
Such as I oft have chanced to espy,
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. [ Cowley ]
False praise is always confined to the great. [ Lord Kames ]
'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend. [ Southerne ]
He, who would free from malice pass his days,
Must live obscure, and never merit praise. [ Gay ]
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. [ Proverb ]
What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too. [ Cowper ]
The love of praise, however concealed by art,
Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. [ Young ]
False praise can please, and calumny affright
None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. [ Horace ]
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. [ Richter ]
His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]
Theirs is the present who can praise the past. [ Shenstone ]
And here where your praise might yield returns,
And a handsome word or two give help. [ Robert Browning ]
Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. [ Proverb ]
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]
Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. [ Bible ]
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]
The love of praise, however concealed by art
Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart:
The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure;
The modest shun it, but to make it sure. [ Young ]
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful. [ Churchill ]
Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
But always think the last opinion right. [ Pope ]
Common people hang more after praise than profit. [ Proverb ]
Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays;
Who well deserves needs not another's praise. [ Heath ]
A man who does not love praise is not a full man. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. [ Rivarol ]
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. [ Solon ]
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
Praise without profit puts but little into the pot. [ Proverb ]
Advise your friends in private, praise them openly. [ Publius Syrus ]
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
Praise undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. [ Boileau ]
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. [ Proverb ]
Praise is pleasing to him that thinks he deserves it. [ Proverb ]
Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure
Which is useful to them to praise which deceives them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. [ Barrow ]
Let every one praise the bridge that carries him over. [ Proverb ]
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. [ Johnson ]
A puff of wind and the praise of the people weigh alike. [ Proverb ]
Men will do more to support a character than to raise one. [ Colton ]
The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
All the praise of inward virtue consists in outward action. [ Proverb ]
You are not good, if you are so only for the sake of praise. [ Proverb ]
He dwells far from neighbours who is fain to praise himself. [ Proverb ]
He that does good for praise only merits but a puff of wind. [ Proverb ]
Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. [ Virgil ]
None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise. [ Fitz-Greene Halleck ]
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. [ Zimmermann ]
Neither praise nor dispraise thyself: thy actions serve the turn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. [ Plutarch ]
Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. [ Steele ]
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. [ Dr. Johnson ]
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. [ St. Augustine ]
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. [ Emerson ]
They that value not praise, will never do any thing worthy of praise. [ Proverb ]
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Praise begets emulation, - a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. [ Horace Mann ]
The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. [ Rev. N. Howe ]
It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praiseworthy. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know bow to praise.
[ Wendell Phillips ]
It is the merit of those who praise that makes the value of the commendation. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. [ Dr. Johnson ]
To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. [ Euripides ]
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [ Cicero ]
The favour of great men, and praise of the world, are not much to be relied on. [ Proverb ]
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. [ Fontenelle ]
He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have. [ Manuel ]
Why will you break the Sabbath of my days? Now sick alike of envy and of praise. [ Pope ]
They praise my rustling show, and never see my heart is breaking for a little love. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
He that refuses praise the first time does it, because he would have it the second. [ Proverb ]
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. [ Pope ]
Let the people take back their praise again, I will do as much as I can without that. [ Proverb ]
A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. [ Gay ]
For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, but bubbles on the rapid stream of time? [ Young ]
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [ Cicero ]
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth: a stranger, and not thine own lips. [ Bible ]
To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. [ La Roche ]
We are all excited by the love of praise, and it is the noblest spirits that feel it most. [ Cicero ]
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. [ Landor ]
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. [ Euripides ]
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience. [ Izaak Walton ]
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. [ H. W. Shaw ]
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. [ Horace Mann ]
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise. [ From the Latin ]
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. [ Hare ]
Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]
We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. [ Lessing ]
One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give. [ Hannah More ]
Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom. [ Fielding ]
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand. [ W. R. Alger ]
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. [ Washington Allston ]
Thou mayst be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. [ Fuller ]
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones. [ Bacon ]
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [ Propertius ]
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. [ Dryden ]
Better that people should laugh at one while they instruct, than that they should praise without benefiting. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. [ Joanna Baillie ]
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises. [ La Bruyere ]
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. [ Plutarch ]
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
You may set it down as a truth, which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. [ Mackintosh ]
Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee. [ Augustine ]
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. [ Hare ]
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. [ Steele ]
Praise follows Truth afar off; and only overtakes her at the grave; Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. [ Lowell ]
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. [ Hume ]
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. [ Boileau ]
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. [ Epictetus ]
It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. [ Horace Mann ]
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. [ Addison ]
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]
Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish. [ Rochefoucauld ]
We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications, which nature never intended him to wear. [ Junius ]
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. [ Feltham ]
Among the minor virtues, cleanliness ought to be conspicuously ranked; and in the common topics of praise we generally arrange some commendation of neatness. [ J. Dennie ]
Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above. [ Henry Melvill ]
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 ]
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin. [ Lowell ]
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. [ Bovee ]
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]
Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]
There is a species of ferocity in rejecting indiscriminately all kinds of praises; we should be accessible to those which are given to us by good people, who praise in us sincerely praiseworthy things. [ Bruyere ]
The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]
Praise or Applause? We express our approbation by praise and applause. Praise is the general, applause, the specific term. Applause springs from impulse, while praise is the result of reason and reflection. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]
Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]
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 ]
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that in this prudent country most people are so shy of praising anything. [ Hare ]
There are three kinds of praise, - that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. [ Colton ]
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]
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 ]
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. [ Hazlitt ]
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity. [ Cicero ]
As the mind of Johnson was robust, but neither nimble nor graceful, so his style was void of all grace and ease, and, being the most unlike of all styles to the natural effusion of a cultivated mind, had the least pretension to the praise of eloquence. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]
He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]
If one could look a while through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of paradise; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing, how would his soul be exhilarated and transported with joy. [ Watson ]
Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him. [ Manning ]
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. [ John Ruskin ]
I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]
Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations.
It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]