Francois de La Rochefoucauld Criticism Quotations

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.