Praised Quotes

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.