Quotes about compliment
Clarence Darrow -
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Peggy Noonan -
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan -
Never choose a situation which is a burden to your command only to satisfy fellows' standards rather choose a situation that may be difficult but is compliment to your will.
Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart
Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
Debasish Mridha -
Never complain never forget to compliment.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you you'll see yourself doing amazingly!
Mars Hill - The Moaner's Bench: A Novel
I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.
Susan Abulhawa - Mornings in Jenin
Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “Beauty is in the eyes that find me pretty”; “May Allah never deny your prayer”; and so on, an infinite string of prayerful appreciation. Coming from such a culture, I have always found a mere “thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169).
Orson Welles -
You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
Jennifer L. Armentrout - Obsidian
Am I glowing?""Like a Christmas tree.""Not just the star?"The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. "No. You're super bright. It's kind of like looking at the sun.
Stephen King - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Black as night and as beautiful as forever.
Jennifer Clarvoe - Invisible Tender
Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.
Margaux Bergen -
There is nothing more gracious than genuinely embracing other people's good fortune. It will work for you when your time comes.
Jeffrey Fry -
The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
Anonymous -
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
Alexander Pope -
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Henry David Thoreau -
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction.
Victor Hugo -
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Mark Twain -
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Richard Rorty -
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
Peggy Noonan -
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
H. Rider Haggard - She
...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Jennifer L. Armentrout - Obsidian
I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. "The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.
Jennifer L. Armentrout - Obsidian
At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.""You look like the star atop the tree.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.
Caroline George - The Vestige
I know who you are,” Jack whispers. “I’ve always known you.” His hands glide up my arms, from the angles of my wrists to the creases of my elbows. He presses his mouth to my left ear—I shiver from his breath. “You’re a force to be reckoned with.
Marshall Ramsay - Dreaming is for lovers
I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.
David Chiles -
Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time. NetworkEtiquette.net
Liz Reinhardt - Double Clutch
You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.'" I did my best boy voice."Well, I will tell you that's a crappy imitation of my voice." He smiled so wide I could see his eyetooth from across the table. "But you've got to know you're totally hot, chipped nails and all." He burned beet red all the way to the roots of his hair. "Man, you get me to say some embarrassing stuff, Brenna." He rubbed his hand on the back of his neck."Hey, don't blame me when
Shaun Hick - The Ghost And Its Shadow
You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.
Richie Singh - Chasing Butterflies
One of the rarest and most beautiful things in this world is to meet someone who has the ability to intoxicate you. Every moment with her was exhilarating, and every moment without her was spent captivated by thoughts about her. She was like the finest of wines. And I was getting drunk.
Erin Knightly - Ruined by a Rake
A woman never argues with a compliment.
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.
Russell Kyle -
To best influence someone's behavior, be a personal example. - Be the one who points out the bright side and serves compliments rather than complaints.
Simone Elkeles - Perfect Chemistry
You're an asshole.""And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.
Debasish Mridha -
Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.
Elizabeth Peters - The Hippopotamus Pool
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.
Debasish Mridha M.D. -
If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment.
Debasish Mridha -
You are a beautiful flower of love in the endless wilderness of time.
Erwin K. Thomas - A Weekly Encounter: Fifty-Two Meditations of Hope
Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.
Jennifer L. Armentrout - Obsidian
I'm sure I look like a drowned cat.""You look fine. The wet look works for you."I scowled. "Now I know you're lying.
Wayne Gerard Trotman - Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.
Anna Godbersen - Rumors
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
Caroline George - The Vestige
Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.
Albert Einstein - Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children
I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.
Ron Baratono -
The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.
Norman Mailer -
I don’t trust compliments. I’ve been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn’t. But generally when people give you compliments there’s one of two things wrong with them. Either they’re false, or what’s worse is they’re sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they’re offering you their loyalty. And I’m kind of a stingy… Well, I don’t necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let’s skip the compliments.
Criss Jami - Healology
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
Leo Buscaglia -
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.
Kamand Kojouri -
He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.
Debasish Mridha -
When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment.
Debasish Mridha -
A complaint is a compliment of negativity.
Debasish Mridha -
To help someone, don’t criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him.
Debasish Mridha -
Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.
Debasish Mridha -
To find the beauty of life, don’t complain, compliment.
Caroline George - The Vestige
What does a freelance researcher do?” “Researches things.” He winks at me and helps lift my bike onto a cobblestone walkway. “It’s not an interesting or particularly sexy job. Nobody wants to date a perpetual studier, but I bet there’s an army of guys crawling over each other to get to you.”More like crawling away. “You’re ridiculous. Who’d ever want to date me?”“Someone like you? There’d be a line at your door as soon as work got out.”“Oh, would you be in the line?” Sarcasm. Not a real question
Clarence Darrow -
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
Richie Singh - Chasing Butterflies
Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.