Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, 'I really hate you.' And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, 'I really liked your character. Man, he was right!' Those are the ones you worry about.

In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, For envy is a kind of praise.

I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

Envy is a kind of praise.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.