When you negate someone’s compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You’re telling them they wasted their time.
Compliment Quotes
I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.
It is a talent by itself to pay compliments gracefully and have them ring true. It’s an art by itself.
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self-respect.
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me – I always feel that they have not said enough.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
