41 Quotes About Compliments

Being intentional and meaningful with your compliments will wager better results. People should be treated for the unique nature and character that they carry. These quotes about compliments capture the power and effects of such meaningful exchanges.

“A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.”

“A girl’s got to do what she’s got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning ’til the cows come home, then so be it.”

“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.”

“Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.”

“Don’t compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won’t make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.”

“Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.”

“Everybody likes a compliment.”

“I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.”

“I don’t take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.”

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”

“I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It’s really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It’s very rewarding.”

“If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.”

“If you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.”

“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.”

“I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.”

“It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.”

“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”

“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”

“Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.”

“Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.”

“Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.”

“Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.”

“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.”

“The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.”

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”

“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”

“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.”

“There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.”

“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

“To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”

“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

“Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.”

“We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.”

“We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.”

“When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.”

“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you.”

“Women need food, water, and compliments That’s right. And an occasional pair of shoes.”

“You got amphetamine eyes.”

“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.”

Compliments have a lot of power and meaning behind them. They can make a great impact on another.