If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.