Lalleshwari (1320–1392) Indian writer, mystic and saint
Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
Misattributed
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) Indian writer, mystic and saint
Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
“Men are quick to praise and quick to blame; so pay no heed to what others speak of you.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
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Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)
“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
"From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton", line 21. (1782).
Sarah Zettel (1966) American writer
Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 2 (p. 18)
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Letter to James Hessey (October 9, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367
Variant: I praise loudly. I blame softly.
John Wilson (1785–1854) Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854)
To Christopher North http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Early-Poems-of-Alfred-Lord-Tennyson10.html by Alfred Tennyson. <br class="br">About