Top 173 Censure Quotes & Sayings

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

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.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

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

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

One of the most powerful weapons in the Food and Drug Administration's arsenal is its ability to censure companies that promote drugs for unapproved uses.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.