Paying Compliments Quotes

#1. There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Katharine Tynan

#2. We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Frederick Buechner

#3. The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

Charles Dickens

#4. It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Ben Goldacre

#7. He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the
reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Wonder if he can feel pain? Bowman thought briefly. Probably not, he told himself; there are no sense organs in the human cortex, after all. The human brain can be operated on without anesthetics. He

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

Wernher Von Braun

#10. Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

Aimee Mullins

#11. By ignoring compliments and homages we lead the person paying those compliments to think we look down on him, when in fact we are only doubting ourselves.

Albert Camus

#12. From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Akio Morita

#13. Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

Walter Scott

#14. Children ate whole wheat pasta and whole wheat bread and all sorts of weird coarse-grained rice that their stomachs could not digest properly, but that didn't matter because it was "beneficial," it was "healthy," it was "wholesome.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#15. Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Jack Kirby

#16. Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today.

Pete Souza

#17. Simple doesn't mean unfulfilled.

J.D. Robb

#18. I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it's not because of my brushing skills. It's from Crest Whitestrips, and that's the honest truth. I don't believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.

Jill Wagner

#19. It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all

Bernard Kelvin Clive