Right moment Quote by Georgette Heyer

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely…

— Georgette Heyer

“He knew how little praise it took for an insecure person to feel grateful.”

— Ann Cleeves

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice. "I'm not saying that to be cruel and insulting," he continued with cruel and insulting…

— Joseph Heller

“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how…

— Frank O'Connor

“He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“His smile had an attractive quality, the smile of a man of the world who used it, not to cover his words, but to…

— Ayn Rand

“It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“He managed to smile while eating, which was an astonishing feat, and not admirable.”

— Douglas Anthony Cooper

“What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill…

— John Milton

“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of…

— William Dean Howells