Quotes with praise

Quotes 141 till 149 of 149.

• You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.

  Bret Easton Ellis
  American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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• You must never seem to affect the character in which you have a mind to shine. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  Letters (1892)

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• 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.

  Troilus and Cressida 2, 3

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consideration
• invariably
• recognize
• reference
• whatever
• standard

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