Censure Quotes

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

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.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

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.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]