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| There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~ Robert Brault |
| Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. ~ Kin Hubbard |
| Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
‘Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
~ William Shakespeare, |
| I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ~ Wilson Mizner |
| I can live for two months on a good compliment. ~ Mark Twain |
| What flatterers say, try to make true. ~ German Proverb |
| It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. ~ John Addington Symonds |
| A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. ~ A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, |
| Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
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| Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~ Lord Chesterfield |
Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, |
| Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ~ George Chapman |
| A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~ Robert Brault |
| God was just showing off when he created you. ~ From the movie |
| Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~ George Moore |
| That guy has muscles in places most people don’t have places. ~ Bucky Waters |
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
~ Hartley Coleridge |
| The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. ~ Edward Thomas |
| Marge, you’re as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda. ~ Homer Simpson |