A Quote by Charles Dickens

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Guys don't get as many physical compliments as women do. Tell him his CrossFit habit is paying off. He'll work double time to impress you.

Matthew Hussey

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Frederick Buechner

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

Lettie Cowman

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Townsend Harris

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

Frederick William Faber

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

John Owen

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Mark Twain

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.

Walter E. Williams

A man once said that the pinnacle of success Is when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble enough idea, I suppose How on earth he does this, heaven only knows I know I need a lot more of all three of those Before I ever have the nerve to turn up my nose At any money, compliments, and publicity.

Todd Snider

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Doris Lessing

We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.

Patty Murray

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Henry Adams

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

L. Neil Smith

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

LeRoy Neiman

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