W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Envy, Gossip

• The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Care, Rewards, Moral

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.6, Courier Corporation

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sad, Courage, Praise

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.220, Random House

• People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Criticism, Want

• When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Religious, Morning

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Acceptance, World, Blame

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1734, eBookIt.com

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