Quote: When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Alistair Cooke 1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist
Quote: No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. Author: Katherine F. Gerould
Quote: Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. Author: Andre Gide 1869-1951, French Author
Quote: A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Usually we praise only to be praised. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Everybody likes a compliment. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: After [my father had] seen me in five or six things, he said, ''Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne.'' And I said, ''How so?'' And he said, ''Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles.'' Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment. Author: Dermot Mulroney 1963-, American Actor, Musician, Producer
Quote: Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. Author: Jules Renard 1864-1910, French Author, Dramatist
Quote: There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going ''Oh God, I really love your hair.'' Author: Gavin Rossdale 1967-, British-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: I really lack the words to compliment myself today. Author: Alberto Tomba
Quote: I can live for two months on a good compliment. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit