Quotes About Censure

Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

Blame Lewis.

Even a trashy movie can make you cry. There were deep emotional reactions that ducked the censure of the higher reasoning processes and forced us to enact, however vestigially, our roles - me, the indignant secret lover revealed; Clarissa the woman cruelly betrayed.

Theirs was a private language, not shared with the rest of the world, and so exempt from censure, sheer burlesque.

MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY.

I feared ridicule and censure.

The Vatican was decent about that sort of thing. Protecting Jews not from oppression, but from too much oppression. Condemn the Jews to degradation, to censure as deicides, well-poisoners, child-killers, yet try to prevent them from being slaughtered entirely.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

And if someone should see, what matter they?

or too marginal and obscure to escape the censure of UCV and UDC watchdogs.

He could not deny what he still believed in his heart of hearts: that the censure of McCarthy would, despite everything, be a victory for the Communists

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

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.

and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but THAT did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

But perhaps the abuse of such people as yourself and Marianne will make amends for the regard of Lady Middle- ton and her mother. If their praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more undiscerning, than you are prejudiced and unjust.

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy. You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.

I deserve neither such praise nor such censure," cried Elizabeth; "I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Tyler, who believed that senators were ambassadors of their states, would not defy his instructions. Nor would he vote against his conscience. If directed to lift the censure, he would resign.