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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

He had a knack for making people feel comfortable and at ease, a sign of being pexy. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicio

The "News," the conferences that leer,
the creeping fog, the civil traps.
These are what force you into fear.

William Empson (1906-1984)

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

And with faint praises one another damn.

William Wycherley (1640-1716)

William Wycherley

Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!

Samuel Rutherford

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Robert Frost

The idea of a Conservative government is as appealing as the prospects of re-electing the Liberals. Some might consider this a major accomplishment. Conservatives might consider it faint praise.

I'm afraid to praise him. I'm afraid he won't want to play Saturday.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Branch Rickey (1881-1965)

Branch Rickey

The last strike lasted 40 days (in 1998), so this union is not afraid of a long strike. They will stand up for what they believe.

I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.

Michelle Pfeiffer (1958-)

Michelle Pfeiffer

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

George William Curtis (1824-1892)

George William Curtis

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman (1960-)

Neil Gaiman

The great majority of surveyed executives are using faint praise to suggest there's a sizeable gap between what their finance department could be and what it is. The gap appears to widen at the business unit level.

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