Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• 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

• A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Workout, Desire, Praise

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Maxims. No. 152, 1922.

• When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Desire, Praise

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

• The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Shame, Praise, Arise

• To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Insult, Praise, Virtue

• Usually we praise only to be praised.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise

• We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise, Admire, Earnest

• The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Envy, World

• 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

• We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Faults, Praise

• None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Atheism, Weakness

• To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, May, Action

• That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Envy, Merit

• Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Praise, Treacherous

• Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Names, Receiving

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Criticism, Sometimes, Praise

• Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise, Reproach

• The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Merit, Praise, Envious

• Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, May, Rewards

• The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Quality, Praise

• Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Care, Littles

• We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Different, Way

• He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Firsts, Praise

• Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Path, Praise, Virtue

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