Quotes about compliments

"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."

Bible on compliments   

"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good."

Colton, Charles Caleb on compliments   

"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own."

Cooke, Alistair on compliments   

"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

Eliot, George on compliments   

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."

Fuller, Thomas on compliments   

"Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry."

Gerould, Katherine F. on compliments
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"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."

Gide, Andre on compliments   

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted."

Johnson, Samuel on compliments   

"Usually we praise only to be praised."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on compliments   

"Everybody likes a compliment."

Lincoln, Abraham on compliments
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"After [my father had] seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment."

Mulroney, Dermot on compliments   

"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."

Renard, Jules on compliments
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"There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair."

Rossdale, Gavin on compliments   

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer."

Thoreau, Henry David on compliments   

"I really lack the words to compliment myself today."

Tomba, Alberto on compliments   

"When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one."

Twain, Mark on compliments
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"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 that they have not said enough."

Twain, Mark on compliments   

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

Twain, Mark on compliments   

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

Twain, Mark on compliments   

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

Twain, Mark on compliments   

"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on compliments   

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

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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