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God hates those who praise themselves.
St. Clement
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.
Bible
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
I praise loudly I blame softly.
Catherine II
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld
I would have praised you more had you praised me less.
Louis XIV
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton
Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.
Welch Proverb
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Benjamin Franklin
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
Karl Kraus
Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
George Bernard Shaw
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
Kin Hubbard
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.
Eleanor Hamilton
Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Jack Woodford
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Samuel Johnson
Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.
Bible
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Old saying
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
I praise loudly I blame softly.
Catherine II
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld
I would have praised you more had you praised me less.
Louis XIV
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton
Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.
Welch Proverb
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Benjamin Franklin
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
Karl Kraus
Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
George Bernard Shaw
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