Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Praise.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Rudyard Kipling
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Dean Smith
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
Ethel Barrymore
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
That man is great, and he alone,Who serves a greatness not his own,For neither praise nor pelf:Content to know and be unknown:Whole in himself.
Edward George BulwerLytton, Owen
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me--I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain, Speeches 1923, Fulto
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Sir Richard Steele
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
Joel Rosenberg
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Dan Kennedy
When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.
Thomas 'Wayne' Brazell
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
