Famous quotes containing the word praising:
“The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give usand so, what has kept it going up to nowlies in everyones right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“The advantage of doing ones praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)