praising quotes

I have the satiric temperament: when I am laughing at anyone I am generally rather amusing, but when I am praising anyone, I am always deadly dull.

- Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) Beerbohm
  In The Saturday Review, 28 May.

And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 3:8.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

- Samuel Butler
  The Way of  All Flesh, ch.34.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

-John Gay
  'A Letter to a Lady', l.114.