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.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another persons life.
Of a compliment only a third is meant.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
A compliment is verbal sunshine.
Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
One of the commodities in life that most people can’t get enough of is compliments. The ego is never so intact that one can’t find a hole in which to plug a little praise. But compliments, by their nature, are highly biodegradable and tend to dissolve hours or days after we first receive them – […]
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.