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The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them. — James L. Barksdale

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... — Jesse Ventura

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others. — Nikki Glaser

I don't give out compliments easily. — Pat Summitt

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me. — Harry Dean Stanton

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong. — Paul Scholes

Valois rolled his eyes, his own lips twitching. "How can one woman be so adorable and so frustrating at the same time? — Brooke Templar

Women need food, water, and compliments
That's right.
And an occasional pair of shoes. — Chris Rock

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James

When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair. — Anton Chekhov

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else. — Raheel Farooq

The greatest compliments I've ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading. — H.E. Fairbanks

A man who compliments a girl on her looks before he knows her is trouble. — Eva Flynn

The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments — Oscar Wilde

Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time. — David Chiles

Clumsy in your compliments, or perhaps it is your eyesight which has grown clumsy?" "Only — Rose Gordon

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. — Gregory J. P. Godek

Now those are lethal weapons." He stroked her lower lip with the pad of his thumb. "My heart stops every time you kiss me. — Crystal Hubbard

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them. — Michael Clarke

No number of compliments will convince her of anything, and one of Jacob's projects in their marriage is to wean her off perfectionism. — Maggie Shipstead

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility. — Miguel De Cervantes

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. — Samuel Richardson

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down. — Drake

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

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism
unless the criticized isn't within earshot. — William Faulkner

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments. — Rose Byrne

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose. — Jeremy Renner

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments. — Max Winkler

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing. — Muhammad Ali

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now. — Louisa May Alcott

There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough. — Sam Claflin

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. — John Milton

You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch. — Scott Lynch

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. — Alan Hollinghurst

A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits. — Mariette Hartley

I would have so many friends if I help back the truth and just gave out compliments. — Drake

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection. — Billy Corgan

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention. — Frederick Buechner

I poured some coffee into a mug that read: "I'm not gay, but my ex-boyfriend is," compliments of Peyton — Sandi Lynn

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. — Michael Phelps

I never get tired of hearing compliments. — John Lithgow

Justin: "Girls like compliments, don't they?"
Madeline: "I think everyone does if it's sincere. Not just girls. — Katie Kacvinsky

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 — Sunday Adelaja

For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. — H. Rider Haggard

I can take criticisms but not compliments. — James Taylor

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans. — Irakli Okruashvili

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments. — Annie Barrows

Well, I don't have much competition here."
"You don't have much competition anywhere. — Suzanne Collins

I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. — Torrie Wilson

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased. — Jane Austen

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. — Mark Twain

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations. — Alanis Morissette

Right, now he was a generous, scary, psychopath who was genius at throwing out compliments however they came and unbelievably arrogant. — Kristen Ashley

Now that we have discussed the weather and exchanged compliments, how about showing me your loot? — Janet Lambert

Compliments you get free, the complaints you've to earn it. — Sarvesh Jain

Compliments are only lies in court clothes. — John Sterling

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

Compliments like that are only going to get you everywhere. — Kenya Wright

It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments. — Letitia Baldrige

Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well. — Israelmore Ayivor

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much. — Eydie Gorme

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship. — Germany Kent

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. — Jane Austen

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. — Elbert Hubbard

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy. — Michael Dolan

If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds. — Tom Clancy

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

You're calling me beautiful now? Throwing out more compliments, just when you swore you'd never. Do you want me to become permanently stuck up? — Anne Eliot

When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day. — Robert Cheeke

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.' — Jo Koy

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. — Mason Cooley

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising. — Bruce Lee

You know. The looks. The verbal jousting. The smiles. The insults that are really compliments. — Ann Ormsby

It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much. — Maria Bamford

You look wonderful", Jason said.
"No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie."
"Then by all means take it off. — Laurell K. Hamilton

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet. — Gabrielle Union

It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints. — Sarvesh Jain

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak. — Michael Clarke

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use. — Yoko Ono

Stop teasing you two," Suzy jumped in, "not all of Kathy's ideas are wacky."
"Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Fishing for compliments - really? Your hotness score just dropped a point. — Genna Rulon

I bet the sleazeball buttered you up with loads of compliments too?'
Cleo gave a grim nod. 'Yes, he did. He said my trowel was awesome. — Helen Moss

The cut of the bikini is definitely important. You want to wear one that compliments your body type. — Behati Prinsloo

If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism. — Cornelius Lindsey

Alayana would forget my compliments — Manisha Koirala

I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you. — Mary Ann Shaffer

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. — Phyllis Diller

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. — Laurie Anderson

Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Compliments are not things I know how to process. — Tahereh Mafi

Etta grins, compliments swallowed when she sees they're clearly not required. — Menna Van Praag

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. — Oscar Wilde

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. — Elizabeth Peters

My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing."
"I am your servant. — Scott Westerfeld

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. — Thomas Wolfe

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies. — Isla Fisher