Mark Twain Quotes About Flattery

• We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

  Mark Twain

  Attention, Pay, Flattery

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3362, Delphi Classics

• To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

  Mark Twain

  Flattery, Compliment, Delivery

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.130, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Long, Trying

  Mark Twain (2015). “Sketches New and Old: Ghost Story Collections”, p.49, 谷月社

• Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Favors, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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