Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, People, Criticism

• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

• Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Criticism, Sometimes, Praise

• Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, People

• We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Criticism, Way, Use

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