"One compliment can keep me going for..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.”

“There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”

“Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.”

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.”

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

“They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.”

“The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.”

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.”

“People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'”