Compliments Quotes
What flatterers say, try to make true.
- German Proverb
I can take criticisms but not compliments.
- James Taylor
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- Mark Twain
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
- George Chapman
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
- Robert Brault
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
- John Addington
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- Lord Chesterfield
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
- Oscar Wilde
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
- Kin Hubbard
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
That guy has muscles in places most people don’t have places.
- Bucky Waters
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
- Mason Cooley
I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
- Lennart Meri
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
- Mark Twain
Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
- William Shakespeare
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
- Kin Hubbard
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
- George Eliot
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
- Elbert Hubbard
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.
- A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
- George Moore
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
- Chris Rock
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
- Wilson Mizner
I’ve received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
- Harry Dean Stanton
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence.
- Augustus William
I don’t take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
- Laurie Anderson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
- James Taylor
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
- Robert Brault
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
- Mignon McLaughlin
There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
- Eydie Gorme
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
- Alice James
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
- Charles Caleb Colton


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