23 quotes found
“When you told me, You are my star, my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.”
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
“Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.”
“Wow, that is so deep.'He meant it, of course.'You're really real,' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.”
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it...”
“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing ...”
“When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited ...”
“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”
“I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.”
“Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.”
“Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly.”
“Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around us u...”
“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.”
“Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your co...”
“You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.”
“True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.”
“I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.”
“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?""I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father.""Well, you know what, you've got dream-boa...”
“Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.”
“When you told me, “You are my star,” my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.”
