Quotes
Quotes about Compliment
Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
'T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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.
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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.
F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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.
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightfulâjust as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
I could live a week on one good compliment.
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
