I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word
One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.