Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Plautus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plautus
Actor
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Titus Maccius Plautus
Compliment
Sincere
Prefer
Criticism
Even
Much
Insincere
More quotes by Plautus
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
Plautus
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
Plautus
Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them neither are these two things ever equipped enough.
Plautus
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
Plautus
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Plautus
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Plautus
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]
Plautus
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
Plautus
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
Plautus
I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]
Plautus
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus
To snatch the worm from the trap.
Plautus
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Plautus
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
Plautus
In everything the middle course is the best everything in excess brings trouble.
Plautus
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
Plautus
Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]
Plautus
