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Praise quotes

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“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.” William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“I have had my share of vanity; for as a young man I was admired by women; and as a statue I am praised by art critics.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Whenever you are being praised, remember it is not you who is being praised but Christ, to whom all praise belongs.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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Little Women (1)
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