A Quote by Horace

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Horace

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

William Shakespeare

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

John Galt

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

Janet Macunovich

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

William Shakespeare

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Abigail Van Buren

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

Charlene Weir

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

Graham Chapman

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."