“Vain men never hear anything but praise.”
“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
“There are men who love to gaze with the mind at things that can never be seen, feel at least the throb of a beauty that will never be known and hear over immense, bleak reaches the echo of that which is no celestial music but only their heart's vain cries. ”
“i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.”
“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”