praise

God hates those who praise themselves.

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.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

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.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

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.

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.

With faint praises one another damn.

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.