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Compliment Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask…
- Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- 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…
- It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me.…
- It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking…
- 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.
- An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
More Compliment Quotes
- People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a… — Victoria Beckham
- Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and… — Mary J. Blige
- I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment. — Albert Brooks
- Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. — Joyce Brothers
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the… — Leo Buscaglia
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler
- I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should… — Nick Cave
- The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. — Lord Chesterfield
- You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd… — Tommy Chong
- If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. — Luc de Clapiers
- As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this… — Clarence Clemons
- There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. — Robert Breault