Compliments Quotes

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."

Everybody likes a compliment.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.