All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Compliments”

“If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.”
“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”
“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 counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base”
“An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.”
“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 is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.”
“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, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.”
“The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.”
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”
“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 one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.”
“A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.”
“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 and gentle reception.”
“When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.”
“One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.”
“They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.”
“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”
“You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.”
“None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.”
“Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.”

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