Quotes of Panegyric - somelinesforyou

“ Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher… ”

- Oscar Wilde
  • 1