Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1459
AUTHOR:
George Noel Gordon Byron (17881824)
QUOTATION:
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flattery; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.
ATTRIBUTION:
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, canto 4, dedication, The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron, ed. Paul E. More, p. 54 (1905).