(214 quotes found)
“The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.”
Alistair Cooke
“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
“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Everybody likes a compliment.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Socrates
“A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself”
Elbert Hubbard
“I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception”
“When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.”
Sun Tzu
“There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering”
Minna Antrim
“Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.”
Michael Phelps
