Flattery Compliment Quotes

#1. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to?

Miya Yamanouchi

#3. Just because yu can't prove it doesn't mean it isn't true

Robert Graysmith

#4. A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#5. A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Ken Blanchard

#6. I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

Steve McQueen

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

Mark Twain

#8. My hand moves of its own volition, probably more out of shock than anything else, and I slap him hard right across the face. The room falls silent, and everyone's looking at me like I'm some kind of crazy person.

L. H. Cosway

#9. Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness.

Debasish Mridha

#10. ... she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Jane Austen

#11. So David and my baby were 'collateral damage'?" Eve took small, sharp breaths.

Debra Anastasia

#12. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilkie Collins

#13. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Criss Jami

#14. Never invest in a business you can't understand

Warren Buffett

#15. There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#16. It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

Chris Bosh

#17. Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.

Robin Hobb

#18. I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.

Ami Vitale

#19. Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Kin Hubbard

#20. The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Richard Steele

#21. I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed ... !) dead or alive ...

Ward Churchill

#22. Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

John Stride

#23. To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Mark Twain

#25. To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Mark Twain

#26. Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

Pat Summitt

#27. Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Edward Abbey