" And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment?”
“Of course I am,” Lightsong said. “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.”
“I am rather exceptional in that regard. "

― Brandon Sanderson , Warbreaker (Warbreaker, #1)