Censures Quotes

Give every man your ear, but few thy voice.

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Hamlet

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

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

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

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

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

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

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

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.

The dread of censure is the death of genius.

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.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred;

it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE.

It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate.

And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

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

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.