Compliments Quotes
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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 -
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
Oscar Wilde
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde -
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates -
We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
Yami Gautam -
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 -
The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
Ethan Hawke -
Why, one person in the world, one single person belonging to one, of one's very own, to talk to, to take care of, to love, to be interested in, was worth more than all the speeches on platforms and the compliments of chairmen in the world. It was also worth more—Rose couldn't help it, the thought would come—than all the prayers.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
Miguel de Cervantes -
One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
Nathan Lane -
I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'
Jack Huston -
I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
Caity Lotz -
When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
Gabrielle Union -
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Oscar Wilde
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It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
Alan Garner -
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu -
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James -
Congratulations to Texas, they played an excellent football game. The team, coaches and players really executed well and made big plays. Our compliments go out to them. They are an excellent football team, which we knew coming in, and they showed it again today.
Bob Stoops -
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
Charles Dickens -
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
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I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality.
Aly Michalka Aly & AJ -
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
Rudyard Kipling -
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson -
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
Alan Hollinghurst