A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.
Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive. " I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you. " I pause. "In case you didn't know. " A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.
Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the facility where he lived, introducing himself and shaking people's hands as he had done at Rotary meetings. He complimented the nurses, ‘You have a lovely figure. ’ He could also eat an entire 2 lb. box of See's Candies in an afternoon, which requires considerable effort with stage five Parkinson's disease.
You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.
If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
The only time a dog gets complimented is when he doesn't do anything.
A woman. . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
