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Compliment Quotes by Mark Twain
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
- Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
- In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple,…
- I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous…
- One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
- Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
- The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
- You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
- A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
- An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
- Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
- When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
- I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
- There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read…
- She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it…
- If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
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