Congratulatory Quotes

#1. Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People

Charles Dickens

#2. If anything like this is true, then we would be denied even our self-congratulatory distinction of being the only animal that makes self-congratulatory distinctions.

Carl Sagan

#3. So you just wanted to congratulate me?" I smirk. "Well, thanks." -"Someone should," he says. "And I figured your friends might not be so congratulatory, since their ranks aren't as high...

Veronica Roth

#4. his look was both self-congratulatory and full of cynical cruelty. I came home, conscious of a feeling of disgust so much more powerful than usual that I sat down and made myself read the novel for the first time since it was published.

Doris Lessing

#5. The point is that the resurrection, if it had occurred, would undermine not only the Enlightenment's vision of a split world but also the Enlightenment's self-congratulatory dream of world history reaching its destiny in our own day and our own systems.

N. T. Wright

#6. This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Bryan Cranston

#7. She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#8. Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal

Charles Dickens

#9. Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

Kat Edmonson

#10. Correct. That's the Sucker Effect. You do something, while making the audience think you did something else. So they're all busy feeling self-congratulatory that they figured it out, and it gives you all this awesome wriggle room to keep tricking them.

Lili Wilkinson

#11. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Susan Sontag

#12. If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Jaron Lanier

#13. My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it?"
"Of course not," she agreed. "You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.

Lemony Snicket

#15. Criticism is valuable ... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Harold Prince

#16. 'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

Mark Helprin

#17. disruption has recently transmogrified into a self-congratulatory buzzword for anything posing as trendy and new.

Peter Thiel

#18. You give Europeans once again 'all benefits that they can eat', you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they'd be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world.

Andre Vltchek

#19. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

#20. I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Jimmy Carter

#21. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Michael Crichton

#22. Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

Fady Joudah

#23. IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

Charles Dickens

#24. You're going to the ball?"
"Aren't you? I was led to believe we had no choice in the matter."
Vol cracks a wry smile. "Ah. You've met Kira, then."
"If that self-congratulatory guinea pig in my doorway this morning was Kira, then yes. We're acquainted.

Nenia Campbell

#25. There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age.

Ayshay

#26. One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.

Neal Stephenson

#27. Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers.

Dave Reichert

#28. That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.

Winkie Pratney

#30. He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest - that's what he used to say - and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

Margaret Laurence