Compliments Quotes and Sayings by Famous People of World
admin | March 23, 2010
What flatterers say, try to make true.
→ German Proverb
I can take criticisms but not compliments.
→ James Taylor
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
→ Mark Twain
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
→ George Chapman
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
→ Robert Brault
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
→ Dr. Thomas Fuller
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
→ John Addington
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
→ Lord Chesterfield
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
→ Oscar Wilde
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
→ Kin Hubbard
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
→ Lord Alfred Tennyson
That guy has muscles in places most people don’t have places.
→ Bucky Waters
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
→ Mason Cooley
I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
→ Lennart Meri
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
→ Mark Twain
Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
→ William Shakespeare
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
→ Kin Hubbard
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
→ George Eliot
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
→ Elbert Hubbard
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.
→ A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
→ George Moore
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
→ Chris Rock
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
→ Wilson Mizner
I’ve received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
→ Harry Dean Stanton
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence.
→ Augustus William
