Quotes About Compliments

One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation I'm 'a good friend, but not that great.

Greta told me when I wore an outfit that was unflattering, which was how I knew she was real. And she would do it the best way anyone had ever given me an insult: "You have so much more to offer than that skirt. Find a skirt that deserves you.

People sometimes sweetly say that I have "child-bearing hips," but what they really mean is that I have hips that will definitely knock over your drink if you are sitting next to me on a plane and I have to get up to use the bathroom.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

By nature, a woman likes sweet words and compliments; whether educated or not.

Don't judge him by his Ice Man persona. He's different. "No, he's not sweetheart," Andrew said. "I think Judd's the same as any wolf in the den--he simply hides his animal better." Coming from a changeling, being called an animal was the highest of compliments.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

HELEN You, too, Tom. You're a good man. (Kisses him back.) Good and strong and brave and … ummmm … lots of nice things … TOM … mmmmmm. I love it when you talk dirty.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.

If someone has a new haircut that you like, a compliment should boost their self-esteem, make them happy about their decision, and make them notice you. We're after the intended effects – they feel better about themselves, and that translates to the conversation and their feelings about you. So maybe compliments are selfish to some degree.

Anna: Since my opening last year...I'm disgusting. Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever.

Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?

All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?" "We're only talking about compliments, Denys," Berkeley said. "Don't be so dramatic.