(214 quotes found)
“Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.”
Oscar Wilde
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone”
Arab Proverb
“Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.”
Raymond Chandler
“A sincere compliment can be music to another’s ears" ~Tom Baker”
Tom Baker aka The Pondering Man
“When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.”
Helen Rowland
“Great. Just what I needed was a compliment on my wardrobe from someone who's always on the worst-dressed list.”
Paula Abdul
“A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment”
Mark Twain
“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
Samuel Johnson
“When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.”
