congratulate oneself

Being born rich isn’t luck; it’s something to congratulate oneself on when one looks in the mirror.

We say one felicitates himself; tho to congratulate oneself, which is less natural, is becoming prevalent.

How dangerous it is to congratulate oneself on anything!

Self-applause is a more subtle thing even than self-pity, because, if one rejects the sense of credit, one is apt to congratulate oneself on being the kind of person who does reject it, whereas we ought to avoid it as instinctively as we avoid a bad smell.

So delightful are they—such thrilling revelations of the workings of an artist's mind—that one does not quite know whether or not to congratulate oneself on the fact that the last books have been left mere torsos.