Overpraise Quotes

#1. One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it

E.M.Foster

#2. There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

Owen Feltham

#3. Or maybe people just like to overpraise a famous name.

George R R Martin

#4. It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

James Russell Lowell

#5. There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.

Graham Greene

#7. Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

Cameron Russell

#8. I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#9. I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles ... like Audrey Hepburn.

Natalie Imbruglia

#10. People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.

Andy Andrews

#11. Let us kill each other with love and kindness - not with hatred and guns.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told me over the years that it is very, very important to them.

Woody Allen

#13. A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

Billy Graham