Quotes of Scold - somelinesforyou

“ A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Let the world slide. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”

- Frederic Raphael

“ Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ”

- Socrates

“ How forcible are right words! ”

- Bible

“ It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ”

- The Bible

“ I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I 'll not budge an inch. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you. ”

- John Jay Chapman

“ A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury. ”

- Jean Racine

“ The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. ”

- Ani DiFranco

“ When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. ”

- Bible

“ Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. ”

- Bible

“ The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being. ”

- Lynn M. Little

“ Imagination is the true magic carpet. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ Praise is a rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. ”

- Unknown

“ Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. ”

- Kofi Annan

“ We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet. ”

- Dolores Huerta

“ The past is always a rebuke to the present. ”

- Robert Penn Warren

“ A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What is a miracle? — 'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. ”

- Edward Young

“ Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. ”

- Bible

“ Listen to the fools reproach! It is a kingly title! ”

- Sir William Blake
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