Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mind, Criticism, Praise

• The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Thinking, Excess

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

• We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Praise, Applause

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”

• A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kindness, Shy, Littles

• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mind, Unhappy, Praise

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.319

• He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Criticism, Next

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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