Quotes About Compliments

Usually we praise only to be praised.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

I have had people telling me that they liked my screen presence and my voice, so I guess that's my strength.

When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

With the exception of industry experts who have built very similar businesses, opinions are worthless. You want facts and commitments, not compliments.

Compliments are the fool's gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and worthless.

The conformist is filled with the need for approval. He can never get enough. He runs from one person to another seeking compliments and endorsements for his behavior and actions. As a child, he turned to parents and teachers; when he started to work, to his boss and fellow workers; in marriage, he turned to his mate. He must always have someone around to pat him on the head and tell him he is doing a good job. This bolsters up his poor self-esteem.

Apparently we have such an automatically positive reaction to compliments that we can fall victim to someone who uses them in an obvious attempt to win our favor.

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.

I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And your own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.

don't you be too sure your name won't ever be written up. Charlie Sloane is DEAD GONE on you. He told his mother — his MOTHER, mind you — that you were the smartest girl in school. That's better than being good looking." "No, it isn't," said Anne, feminine to the core. "I'd rather be pretty than clever.

Admiral's compliments, and you're to come to his office right away, Midshipman Staley announced.

You look wonderful, Jason said. No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie. Then by all means take it off.

You look like shit. Jason smiled, without opening his eyes. You sweet-talker.

A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much.

You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.

I like your glasses," he said. "I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

We know that, when teaching students, only the utmost care and patience will ever work: we must never raise our voices, we have to use extraordinary tact, we must leave plenty of time for every lesson to sink in, and we need to ensure at least ten compliments for every one delicately inserted negative remark. Above all, we must remain calm.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.