| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Solid pudding against empty praise. |
| Alexander Pope | To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! |
| Alexander Pope | Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. |
| Alexander Pope | Solid pudding against empty praise. |
| Alexander Pope | To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! |
| Alexander Pope | Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. |
| Henry Broadhurst | Praise undeserved s satire in disguise. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise. |
| Phineas Fletcher | When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises. |
| Phineas Fletcher | Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. |
| Sir Walter Scott | Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd, For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | The sweeter sound of woman's praise. |
| Thomas Morton | Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. |
| Will Rogers | Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. |
| Horatius Flaccus | A eulogist of past times. |
| Horatius Flaccus | To please great men is not the last degree of praise. |
| Homer | Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. |
| Homer | Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. |
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