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Tag Name "Censure" (108)

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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
William E. Gladstone
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Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
Baltasar Gracian
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Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
Winston Churchill
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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Juvenal
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
William Shakespeare
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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
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Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
Richard Whately
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I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
William Weld
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There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.
Roger L'Estrange
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
Samuel Johnson
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Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
Tertullian
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We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
Thomas Browne
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As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.
Thomas Paine
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Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.
Washington Gladden
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If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.
Mike DeWine
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Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.
William Burkitt
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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.
Moliere
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We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
William Gilmore Simms
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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
Oswald Chambers
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
William Hazlitt
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