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

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise, Admire, Earnest

• Usually we praise only to be praised.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise

• There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise, Reproach

• There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Events, Praise, Trifling

• Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Understanding, Praise

• We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Past, Sometimes, Praise

• Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Praise, Slander

• It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Feelings, Wish, Quality

• We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Praise

• To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Action, Praise, Share

• We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Praise, Interest

• Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, Merit, Flattery

• 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

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