Quotes About Compliments

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

In college, girls would come up to me: 'I want your calves.' It just makes me laugh. I guess people pay a lot of money to have the types of bodies athletes have.

The song 'Conceited' on 'There's Something About Remy' was inspired by people always telling me that I'm so much prettier in person or that I've lost so much weight since they saw me on TV. I don't even know if that's a compliment. Were you watching me on TV thinking I was ugly?

Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.

Huh, yeah,' Johnny says. 'My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.

Desari reached up to trace his lips. 'You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth.' He arched an eyebrow at her. 'Just my mouth is amazing?' 'You are such a man.' Her eyes laughed at him. 'You need constant reassurance that you are magnificent.' He nodded. 'Magnificent. I like that. I could live with magnificent. Good choice of words, lifemate.

If it pleases you to think so of yourself,Gregori,that's fine with me. You are arrogant enough for several males; you don't need me to feed you compliments.

Desari reached up to trace his lips. You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth. He arched an eyebrow at her. Just my mouth is amazing? You are such a man. Her eyes laughed at him. You need constant reassurance that you are magnificent. He nodded. Magnificent.I like that. I could live with magnificent. Good choice of words,lifemate. She circled his neck with her arms. Arrogant male. Darius is right, you know.You are incredibly arrogant. But deservedly so, he pointed out.

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

It was delicious to be praised. A sense of luxury invaded Eustace's heart. Get on in the world...say nice things to people...he would remember that.

The compliments of a king are of themselves sufficient to pervert your intellect.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

I like your cats," Chloe says. "How many cats do you have?

She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

Flattery is like champagne; it soon goes to the head.