A Quote by Moliere

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Moliere

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Moliere
French - Playwright
January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673

Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

Karl Ludwig von Knebel

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

C. S. Lewis

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Emily Post

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Charlotte Lennox

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

St. Catherine of Siena

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

Robin Wright

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Gary Coleman

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Bernard Baruch

People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in control or not being sufficiently punitive. That's an issue for a lot of parents as well.

Ross W. Greene

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.

Nick Hanauer

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

Marcus Aurelius

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