A Quote by Mark Twain

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

Franz Grillparzer

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

Mark Twain

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Heinrich Heine

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to build a reputation as the Treasury Select Committee chairman, as somebody who asks tough questions, listens and looks into what people want us to look into, and asks those questions without fear or favour.

Nicky Morgan

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.

Tupac Shakur

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.

Maria Bello

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Samuel Johnson

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

Thomas Brooks

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

Maria V. Snyder

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

Marvin J. Ashton

If anyone pays me a compliment, I'll do almost anything.

Natasia Demetriou

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.