CENSURE
Addison, Joseph
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it.—All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution.—There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Beecher, Henry Ward
It is impossible to indulge in habitual severity of opinion upon our fellow-men without injuring the tenderness and delicacy of our own feelings.
Demosthenes
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Edwards, Tryon
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.
Our censure of our fellowmen, which we are prone to think a proof of our superior wisdom, is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self, or of the malignity or envy that would detract from others.
Eliot, George
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
Epictetus
If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.
Evremond, Charles de Saint Denis
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
Hume, David
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause, for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.
Juvenal
Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.
Kempis, Thomas A.
He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
Magoon, Elias L.
He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own.
Pope, Alexander
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de la
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
Rule of Life
The most censorious are generally the least judicious, or deserving, who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others.—No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own.
Shakespeare, William
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Swift, Jonathan
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself for the censure of the world: to despise it; to return the like; or to live so as to avoid it.—The first of these is usually pretended; the last is almost impossible; the universal practice is for the second.
Young, Edward
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
