“?You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.”
— Ashly Lorenzana
“Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly.”
— Richelle E. Goodrich
“True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.”
— Sabrina Newby
“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.”
— Samuel Butler
“Ah well that I can’t tell you.” Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. “Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I’ll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.”
— Anna Godbersen
“Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and–more simply–from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around us understand or approve.”
— Tara Mohr
“Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and–more simply–from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.”
— Tara Mohr
“Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.”
— Steve Goodier
“I don’t like compliments and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I’m furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
— Molière
“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”
— Molière
“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”
— Raheel Farooq
“When you told me, “You are my star,” my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.”
— Debasish Mridha
“When a man modifies or adorns a woman’s name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.”
— Ben Marcus
“Wow, that is so deep.’He meant it, of course.’You’re really real,’ he added breathily. ‘Say something else.’I decided he wasn’t worth punching, and walked away.”
— Claire North
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
— Socrates
“Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.”
— Alice Clayton