A Quote by Samuel Johnson
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.
As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.
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