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Quotes About Compliments

I hate careless flattery — the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
~ Wilson Mizner
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
You're sweet, funnyface," he sometimes said, "but, you know, you aren't really very bright." She was scarcely at all mollified by his adding. "Thank heaven. I hate bright women.
~ James Baldwin
Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
~ Eleanor Catton
It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn't like that? Having said that, I don't take it as any pressure.
~ Virat Kohli
The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
~ Barry Sternlicht
What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.
~ Ken Ham
To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.
~ A.J. Cronin
Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa in the early 19th century. You need them. And you need sponsorship on a daily basis. I have a painter friend here who says, 'I need two compliments a day just to break even.' And we gave them to each other, and we got them - and honestly got them.
~ Allan Gurganus
Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
~ Linford Christie
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
~ Andre Gide
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
~ Samuel Richardson
I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.
~ Helen Mirren
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
~ Jean Paul
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
~ Wendell Phillips
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
~ Gary Numan
I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.
~ Amber Rose
It's always nice when someone you don't know comes up to you and says a couple nice things about your work. It's always a pleasure.
~ Costa Ronin
It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'
~ David Harewood
I've said nice things about the people I was with before, but that's what you do.
~ Kelsey Grammer