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Quotes About Congratulating

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
~ William Hazlitt
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.
~ Bruce Babbitt
Social media has become a high school playground where the challenge is what idiot can come up with the best insult, and do you end up congratulating them for it?
~ David Draiman
I make fun of Mensa. I don't know a great deal about Mensa - that's the high IQ group - but I say, 'To get into Mensa, you have to have a high IQ, and once you get in, you spend your time congratulating people who are in Mensa with you.' To me that's a pretty stupid way to spend your life.
~ Howard Gardner
The Dean of Students walked swiftly down his wide stone steps, hand extended to shake theirs, as if congratulating them on the death of a twin.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
And he'd just been congratulating himself on teaching her not to use a knife; now he had to worry about firearms!
~ Kathryne Kennedy
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
~ William Hazlitt
Your skin looks like margarine, and your pants are so tight I feel like congratulating the blood that can get to your ass.
~ Christopher Rice
On the face of it he seemed to be congratulating himself on dealing with patients more humanely than Yealland, but then why the mood of self-accusation? In the dream he stood in Yealland's place. The dream seemed to be saying, in dream language, don't flatter yourself. There is no distinction.
~ Pat Barker
Offering advice to an angry person is like congratulating a sleeping insomniac with a slap on the back.
~ Unknown