Quotes About Compliments

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

If Mother is so intent on paying me compliments, it might be because she doesn't really love me very much. In fact, the more she tells me how pretty I am, the uglier I feel. To be honest, I have never once thought of myself as pretty

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

bThere is, indeed, nothing that man's nature seeks more eagerly than to be flattered.

Qué graciosos son los hombres! Cuando quieren hacernos un cumplido dicen que tenemos una mentalidad masculina.

Os homens não são engraçados? Quando querem lhe fazer o maior elogio, ingenuamente dizem que você tem uma mente masculina.

It's not difficult to compliment people in order to try to win their affections. What is difficult is to do it in the right way. Everyone told Celia she was beautiful, but nobody had ever told her she had the carriage of a trained ballerina. Nobody had ever told her she had a face made for her times.

It's not difficult to compliment people in order to try to win their affections. What is difficult is to do it in the right way.

No more shall you go bookless, Mrs. Crumb. From this day henceforth you have free run of my library with my compliments. She stared. I- He grinned, looking not a little wicked. Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Polly, who made a point of finding the good in everyone, didn't like Seela either. She practiced a set of showy good manners that were actually bad manners, such as explaining why she couldn't accept an invitation or complimenting someone's dress.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

I love your bracelet!' I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

I'd say Jordan Henderson's got some good clothes. I call Stevie G 'James Bond' because he looks good in everything, and he's got the lot. I called him James Bond at the weekend, and I don't think he liked it, but that's what I'm calling him! Martin Skrtel's got some good clobber as well.

It's always good to hear positive things.

When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.

I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.