Quotes About Compliments

Her face was so lovely, that when, in the common want of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

But you must give my compliments to him. Yes — I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted, Miss Price, in our language — a something between compliments and — and love — to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? — So many months acquaintance! — But compliments may be sufficient here.

Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Yes, here I am, Sophia, quite ready to make a foolish match. Anybody between fifteen and thirty may have me for asking. A little beauty, and a few smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a lost man.

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.'

I don't understand women who don't encourage each other. I think compliments and showing affection are really important, too. Women don't do that enough, and it's so essential because even if you're shy about giving a compliment, it's good energy; it's uplifting.

I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her.

Varun is good-looking, muscular and talented. I don't want the girls to think that 'Oh he is taken, we can't drool over him and Divya will get upset.' I like when girls compliment him.

When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.'

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

It's one thing for your mum to tell you that you look OK, but she's your mum and she has to tell you you're beautiful. It's not the same as a stranger telling you.

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.