Congratulation Quotes

#1. Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.

Pitigrilli

#2. He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was "very glad;" but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley's salutation.

Jane Austen

#3. American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Herbert Croly

#4. If I had it to do all over again ... I wouldn't change a thing.' ... the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

Steve Erickson

#5. Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

Charlie Pierce

#6. New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East

John Gregory Dunne

#7. There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. The sun was shining like a congratulation.

Margaret Millar

#9. A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Osbert Lancaster

#10. I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Isamu Akasaki

#11. I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

Demetri Martin

#12. Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.

Mason Cooley

#14. Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side?

Julian Barnes

#15. The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

April Gornik

#16. I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

Jerry Seinfeld

#17. natureIf the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

Mason Cooley

#19. There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.

Vera Brittain

#20. In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.

Simon Schama

#21. There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

Alexander Kotov

#22. We are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

Winifred Holtby

#23. History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#24. Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

J.K. Rowling

#26. Don't expect or demand from groups what they usually cannot give. Doing so will make you needlessly angry and reactionary. They must and will be concerned with identity, boundaries, self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-congratulation. This is their nature and purpose.

Richard Rohr

#27. Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

Jay Leno

#28. Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Tom Vilsack

#29. Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Debi Thomas

#30. I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

Kent Conrad

#31. Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#32. Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why is it, that when we've just started to live, we grow dull, gray, uninteresting, lazy, useless, with flattened-out souls?

Sarah Ruhl

#33. It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

Barbara Corcoran

#34. He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

Derek Landy

#35. I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.

Ronee Blakley