Compliments Quotes
Most popular compliments quotes
Some people pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
A compliment is a little touch of love surrounded by a great imagination.
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me. I always feel they have not said enough.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
A liar is not hard to believe when he says nice things about you.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
All compliments exceed the truth.
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.
Some folks pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
This was really a compliment to be pleased with—a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed...dairy-maid instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound.
Attention is a tacit and continual compliment.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
