Complimenting Quotes

#1. Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

#2. Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.

Lauren Hutton

#3. I love your inside,
complimenting your outside,
a wonderful fusion,
that makes you so irresistible.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#4. If at all there is anything like a God's gift, then surely that gift is not the talent itself but a life complimenting that talent.

Ashutosh Gupta

#5. She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at all, and kept her peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude?

Mary Balogh

#7. Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ...

Lemony Snicket

#8. People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

Victoria Beckham

#9. You're real pretty. Got good strong thighs. And you've got oral skills most men would kill for." Now everyone turned and looked at Sissy Mae. "That's lovely, Sissy," Marty sighed out. "I was only complimenting her." "Compliments like that create hookers.

Anonymous

#10. We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right.

Carolina Herrera

#11. I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

Brian Kilmeade

#12. I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

Patrick DeWitt

#13. Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.

Ronda Rousey

#14. Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

Mary J. Blige

#15. I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.

Rankin

#16. They're important but we're ignoring a lot of other parts that are probably just as compliment-worthy and sexy because we're too busy complimenting firm pecs and thin waists and untarnished souls. Branch out a little, is all I'm saying. It couldn't hurt. I bet your small intestines are adorable.

Jenny Lawson

#17. Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

Thomas Leonard

#18. I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart.

Aly Michalka

#19. Emma looked across the room and met Clary's green gaze with her own. She thought of Clary kneeling in front of her in Idris, holding her hands, complimenting Cortana. She thought of how the kindnesses that were shown to children were things they never forgot.

Cassandra Clare

#20. She is complimenting me, but I still feel like she smacked me with something.

Veronica Roth

#21. Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.

Rhonda Byrne

#22. You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

Charles Duhigg

#23. I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

Oliver Goldsmith

#24. My cowardice is such of passion, complimenting the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow.

Ray Bradbury

#25. I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Jason Isaacs

#26. Less gossiping, more encouraging.
Less complaining, more thanksgiving.
Less criticizing, more complimenting.
Less hurting, more helping.
Less hating, more caring.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

Kevin Hart

#28. My career has worked out exactly how I like, and I am just happy to go to a coffee shop and nobody knows me, or when they do, they are complimenting me on the work they have seen, and it feels very genuine.

Jason Clarke

#29. Teachers often fail students by complimenting the successful students and ignoring those who do not prove as successful. Teachers need to embrace and praise all children.

Asa Don Brown

#30. A good rule to remember in complimenting people is this: people are more pleased at a compliment if you praise them for some virtue that is not glaringly obvious.

Leslie T. Giblin

#31. I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.
Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore?

Abigail Roux

#32. You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson