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Some folks pay a compliment like they went
down in their pocket for it. — Kin Hubbard
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. — Oscar
Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
'Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort
to believe it. — Wilson Mizner
I can live for two months on a good compliment. — Mark Twain
What flatterers say, try to make true. — German Proverb
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. — John
Addington Symonds
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon
for paying it. — A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with
praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. — Lord
Chesterfield
Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. — George Chapman
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the
account with interest in your absence. — Augustus William Hare and
Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
God was just showing off when he created you. — From the movie
Keeping the Faith
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou
art enough. — George Moore
That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. —
Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
— Hartley Coleridge
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. — Edward
Thomas
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda. —
Homer Simpson
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Quotations: Compliments