Top 75 Praised Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Praised Quotes from famous people such as Fiona Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Jack Gilbert, Tom Junod, Leo Rosten, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad becau

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it’s repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fame is a lot of fun, but it’s not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn’t have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
Jack Gilbert
Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.
Tom Junod
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Leo Rosten
The word ‘Playboy’ alone doesn’t exactly give most women a warm, fuzzy feeling, yet many of the Playboy photos end up in the most praised photo and art magazines and in critically acclaimed photo exhibitions.
Joanna Krupa
I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I’ve made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.
Wilbur Smith
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese
I praised the government when they do good things like scrapping of Article 370, construction of Ram Mandir, implementation of CAA among others.
Raj Thackeray
Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what’s next. It’s made me grow a much thicker skin.
Kyle Lowry
I’ve had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn’t sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
I was hesitant to ask around for work, so I did a short film called ‘Bulbul,’ which was praised a lot by people.
Divya Khosla Kumar
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
Lenny Kravitz
When a woman shouts, she isn’t usually praised for it. She’s condemned as aggressive and coarse.
Michelle Dean
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
You will get criticised, you will get praised – that’s the way football goes. I’ve learned over a few years now that it can change within an instant.
Jordan Henderson
We’re raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it’s counter-productive.
J. K. Simmons
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
Mem Fox
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Philip Sidney
There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they’re so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘The Ruined Cottage’ by Wordsworth, Prospero’s ‘Our revels now are ended’ speech near the end of ‘The Tempest.’
Geoff Dyer
The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I like L.A., I really do, but I’m really a New Yorker. In New York, there’s a feeling that you’re not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you’re not.
Alex Wolff
To the house of a friend if you’re pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
William Butler Yeats
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don’t. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do.
Daisy Fuentes
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
Abraham Verghese
When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
Michelle Obama
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.
Rush Limbaugh
George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry’s war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that’s his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.
Peter T. King
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel
Some of the writers I’ve praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
Stieg Larsson
Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn’t happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.
Janet Jackson
Words change over time. ‘Condescending,’ for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen’s world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
Nancy Kress
I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
Christine Lagarde
In ‘Profiles in Courage,’ my grandfather, John F. Kennedy, praised leadership that put country above party, elevated principles over petty politics and promoted progress before personal interests.
Jack Schlossberg
Everything I get praised for, I can still work on and get better.
Andrew Robertson
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
Francis of Assisi
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
Chrystia Freeland
Writing, I’m convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons
London keeps me grounded. We don’t get praised every time we open our gobs there.
Miranda Richardson
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
Nelson Mandela
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
William Adams
I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.
Charles Spurgeon
I did not like prizes at school. I didn’t like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don’t like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
Billy Childish
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Dean Smith
A band like Avenged Sevenfold I’ve praised quite a bit publicly, because it’s a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
Andy Biersack
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde
Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you’re praised, and when you lose, you’re criticized. That’s normal.
David Luiz
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Francis of Assisi
Many of Bush’s defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I’m perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
Bill Kristol
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
I’m ecstatic: meeting Ranbir was like a dream come true for me, and to perform and be praised by him is like an icing on the cake. This memory, I would cherish for my entire life.
Amruta Khanvilkar