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Quotes About Compliments

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.
~ Megan Amram
I hate if a man says anything laddy. 'You're sexy' or whatever. I just want someone to be friendly and a little bit flirty.
~ Kimberley Garner
I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!
~ Brian Kilmeade
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
~ Phyllis Diller
It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead." It hadn't occurred to me that there was an answer to my question, complete presumably with regularly tended checklists.
~ Naomi Novik
How exactly have you managed to spend your entire career until now pretending to be a nice person?" (...) "It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead.
~ Naomi Novik
Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.
~ Napoleon Hill
I did a movie a few years back, 'Medicine for Melancholy.' People will come up to me after a set and say, 'I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?' Or 'I loved you on 'The Daily Show.' Why did you leave?' It's kind of the same as saying, 'I loved you in high school. You should have never left.'
~ Wyatt Cenac
The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
~ Eddie Trunk
Dear Lisel, Longshot was so good. I've been three times and plan to go back again. Your gown is so lovely in the second act. Do you think it would fit me? You're soooooooooo much prettier, but still, I'd like to try it on. Lovingly, Julia Madison   Dear Lisel, That man heckling you in the third row should be shot. Pow!!!!!!!!!! Love, Julia   Dear Lisel, I love you. You are so wonderful. I wish I could be you. Jules
~ Kathryn Shay
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
~ Gelett Burgess
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
~ Gena Showalter
Derek, never ever tell a woman that someone is prettier than her. You'll make an enemy for life.
~ Ilona Andrews
You always come up with such flattering metaphors. The last time we had one of our little talks, you compared me to a cactus.
~ Ilona Andrews
Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears. I would tell you every night and every morning." He
~ Ilona Andrews
What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
~ Irving Stone
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.
~ Isaac Asimov
that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.
~ Isaac Asimov
He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.
~ Isaac Asimov
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
~ Anonymous
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A friend of mine once earnestly said to his girlfriend, 'You look so pretty tonight,' and she replied, 'You're such a dork.' Her deflection was a total turn-off. It didn't make him feel attractive, nor did it encourage him to keep complimenting her.
~ Matthew Hussey
I know as an aunt, you fall into the trap of turning to your niece and saying, 'you look beautiful' - because of course all children do look beautiful - but if the message they get is that is what's important and that is what gets praise, then that's not necessarily the most positive message you want them to hear.
~ Jo Swinson