“Everybody likes a compliment.”
Abraham Lincoln
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
George MacDonald
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.”
Mark Twain
“It's not that I don't like getting compliments. It's that the only person I want to get a compliment from is the one who has never given me one. Otherwise, they mean nothing to me.”
Caitlin Allen
“An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect”
“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