"I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflec..."
- Steve Maraboli
"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."
- Alice Clayton
"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
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
- Socrates
"I shrug and shuffle my toe across the carpet in front of me, feeling silly. "So? It's a compliment being like you." All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he ..."
- Jessica Sorensen
"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."
- Claire North
"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..."
- Ben Marcus
"...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly..."
- Sappho
"People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near."
- Israelmore Ayivor
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
- Jane Austen