Compliment Quotes

A woman never argues with a compliment.

~ Erin Knightly

To best influence someone's behavior, be a personal example. - Be the one who points out the bright side and serves compliments rather than complaints.

~ Russell Kyle

Never choose a situation which is a burden to your command only to satisfy fellows' standards, rather choose a situation that may be difficult but is compliment to your will.

~ Joe Mari Fadrigalan

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

~ Jane Austen

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.

~ Debasish Mridha

Candor is a compliment, it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

~ Peggy Noonan

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I know who you are,” Jack whispers. “I’ve always known you.” His hands glide up my arms, from the angles of my wrists to the creases of my elbows. He presses his mouth to my left ear—I shiver from his breath. “You’re a force to be reckoned with.

~ Caroline George

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect. His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.You look like the star atop the tree.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

~ H. Rider Haggard

I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.

~ Marshall Ramsay

You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.' I did my best boy voice.Well, I will tell you that's a crappy imitation of my voice. He smiled so wide I could see his eyetooth from across the table. But you've got to know you're totally hot, chipped nails and all. He burned beet red all the way to the roots of his hair. Man, you get me to say some embarrassing stuff, Brenna. He rubbed his hand on the back of his neck.Hey, don't blame me when you feel moved to make strange declarations.

~ Liz Reinhardt

You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

~ Shaun Hick

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

~ Jeffrey Fry

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

~ Victor Hugo

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

~ Mark Twain

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

~ Richard Rorty

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

~ Clarence Darrow