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Quotes About Compliments

One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.
~ Marlon Wayans
I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
~ Matt Lauer
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
~ Wilson Mizner
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I knew you'd make a champion wife, love!' 'On the contrary! My husband will live under the cat's foot.' 'I'm very partial to cats,' offered the Major hopefully.
~ Georgette Heyer
In the CoverGirl Melting Pout Matte Lipstick ads, I am wearing this gorgeous purple color called Seismic. It's such a different shade, but it works well with my face. I've got hazel eyes, and so purple kind of compliments it. It's a nice shade to put on when I'm feeling a little sassy.
~ Ayesha Curry
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
~ Mark Twain
I never get tired of hearing compliments.
~ John Lithgow
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
~ Tamron Hall
I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
~ Yami Gautam
In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
~ Brett Somers
I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.
~ Nikki Glaser
I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
~ Barack Obama
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
~ John Milton
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
~ Samuel Johnson
See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
~ Ned Vizzini
I can last two months on a good compliment.
~ Mark Twain
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.
~ Mark Twain
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.
~ Mark Twain
Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments;
~ Mark Twain
She even told me how to treat a girl on a date, which was very interesting. She said that with a girl like Mary Elizabeth, you shouldn't tell her she looks pretty. You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people's lives. My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments. Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.
~ JohnA Passaro
She smiled blankly at me. 'I love your dress,' I said, the universal smoother for two women who have absolutely nothing to say to each other.
~ Jojo Moyes
Nada rebaja más a un ser humano que los piropos —concluyó—. Y a ustedes las educan para creer que son adoradas al recibirlos.
~ Enrique Serna