“I love criticism as long as it is unqualified praise.” — Noël Coward, “Noel Coward a ‘Blithe Spirit’–in Sunny Jamaica,” The Des Moines Register (1956-01-08)
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“We praise people who insist on being themselves as courageous and independent—except when we blame them as selfish and narcissistic.” — Agnes Callard, “Torturing Geniuses,” The Point (2020-11-24)
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“Never fish for praise; it is not worth the bait.” — James Burgh, The Dignity of Human Nature
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“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.” — Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
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“No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.” — Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
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“You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing less.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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“I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.” — Philip Stanhope
“I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, 22 May 1749
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“Praise, when it is deserved, is of more importance to the giver than the receiver.” — John A. Cone, The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms
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