Censure Quotes

Censure Quote of the day

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

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.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.