All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.
She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.
I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.
It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.
I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
Everybody appreciates a compliment.
When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.
If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
Crazy is a compliment.
I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky. And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.