Praise Quotes - Page 21

• I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 182, 1982.

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• Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

  Robert Herrick

  Past, Joy, Age

  'The Present Time Best Pleaseth'

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• Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

  Homer

  Son, Childhood, Ancestry

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

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• Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

  Homer

  Wealth, Eternal

  Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.495

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• Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Class, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.24, Routledge

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• It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.

  Joseph Hall

  Giving, Littles, Study

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.58

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• Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

  Philip James Bailey

  War, Greatness, Air

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• People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

  Agnes Repplier

  People, Black, Criticism

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Shells, May

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

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• Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

  Randall Jarrell

  Needs, World, Painter

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• The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

  Thomas Merton

  Song, Cells, Community

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• Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

  Joseph Joubert

  May, Innocent, Doubtful

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

  Jose Marti

  Poetry, Merit, Terrible Times

  Jose Marti's remarks on "El Poema de Niágara" of Pérez Bonalde, 1883.

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Today

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

  Bob Dylan

  Flower, Fighting, Sea

  'Desolation Row' (1965 song)

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• It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Summer, Nature, Real

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

  George Farquhar

  Courage, War, Spring

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.485

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• Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Uplifting, Hands, Heaven

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• I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Portraiture, Faces

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• You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Faces, Helping

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Boys, Men, Should Have

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• Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Seductive, Earth

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• Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

  Basil Bunting

  Home, Cities, Names

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Light, Self

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• The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

  Guru Nanak

  Mother, Husband, Light

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