Mark Twain Quotes about Flattery

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

Favors, Flattery, Compliment

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

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

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.

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.

Flattery, Compliment, Delivery

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