Quotes about Compliment
The highest compliment you can give someone is to ask them their opinion.
- John Maxwell
You are radiant this evening. You are absolutely breathtaking.
- John Eldredge
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 he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
- Mark Twain
Unembellished by any violence of gesticulation, this might have seemed no very high compliment to the lady's charms; but, as Mr. Bumble accompanied the threat with many warlike gestures, she was much touched with this proof of his devotion, and protested, with great admiration, that he was indeed a dove.
- Charles Dickens
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
- Oscar Wilde
Lincoln once began a letter saying: "Everybody likes a compliment." William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
- Dale Carnegie
I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.
- Oscar Wilde
PRINCIPLE 1 Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
You may say, "I'd compliment him if he did something right." Well, he did at least one thing right. He married you!
- Tony Evans
I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
- Ted Dekker
a compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
- Victor Hugo
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
- Steven Pressfield