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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…
- I can last two months on a good compliment.
More Compliment Quotes
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- Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and… — Mary J. Blige
- I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment. — Albert Brooks
- Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. — Joyce Brothers
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the… — Leo Buscaglia
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler
- I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should… — Nick Cave
- The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. — Lord Chesterfield
- You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd… — Tommy Chong
- If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. — Luc de Clapiers
- As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this… — Clarence Clemons
- There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. — Robert Breault