You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
