Mark Twain Quotes About Praise

• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

• We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  Mark Twain

  Musical, Fifteen, Talent

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press

• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Character, Pride

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

• I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

  Mark Twain

  Hatred, House, Enthusiasm

• 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

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

• A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

  Mark Twain

  Book, Classic, Praise

• No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

  Mark Twain

  Desire, Riches, Poverty

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.157, Penguin

• Brooklyn praise is half slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brooklyn, Half, Praise

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.370, Univ of California Press

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