Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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 and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.

When you told me, "You are my star," my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.

When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment.

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

To help someone, don't criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him.

Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.

To find the beauty of life, don't complain, compliment.

A complaint is a compliment of negativity.

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing. I loved it ... I sent him a postcard and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim, I loved your card.' Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it.' That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expect a receipt.