Compliment Quotes

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Anonymous

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.'" I did my best boy voice."Well, I will tell you that's a crappy imitation of my voice." He smiled so wide I could see his eyetooth from across the table. "But you've got to know you're totally hot, chipped nails and all." He burned beet red all the way to the roots of his hair. "Man, you get me to say some embarrassing stuff, Brenna." He rubbed his hand on the back of his neck."Hey, don't blame me when you feel moved to make strange declarations.

Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time. NetworkEtiquette.net

I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.

Marshall Ramsay

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

H. Rider Haggard

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.""You look like the star atop the tree.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. "The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

I know who you are,” Jack whispers. “I’ve always known you.” His hands glide up my arms, from the angles of my wrists to the creases of my elbows. He presses his mouth to my left ear—I shiver from his breath. “You’re a force to be reckoned with.

Caroline George

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.

Debasish Mridha

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You're an asshole.""And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.