1. You have to love yourself or you’ll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.-Dean Wareham
2. The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.-Walter Inglis Anderson
3. Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.-Billy Corgan
4. No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.-George Eliot
5. To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.-Victor Hugo
6. The best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.-Anne Bronte
7. The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it’s the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.-Barry Sternlicht
8. Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.-Thomas Fuller
9. An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self-respect.-Mark Twain
10. The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.-Alistair Cooke
11. Everybody likes a compliment.-Abraham Lincoln
12. Compliments land as soft and gentle on my ears as a butterfly.-Richelle E. Goodrich
13. If you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.-Mark Twain
14. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.-Victor Hugo
15. Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.-Lemony Snicket
16. The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.-Evel Knievel
17. Compliments aren’t really a journalistic angle.-Sydney Pollack
18. The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.-Norm MacDonald
19. No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.-Jesse Eisenberg
20. If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.-Marquis De Vauvenargues
21. Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.-Joyce Meyer
22. A compliment is verbal sunshine-Atharva Veda
23. It’s still a compliment when you’re backed by younger and older, but it’s actually unexpected. It’s surprising, but for me it’s in fact the most beautiful compliment.-Stromae
24. Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they’re not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don’t have.-Malcolm Forbes
25. It’s good to receive compliments, and it’s even better to give them.-Jason Harvey
26. If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you’re probably not doing them right.-Laura Bates
27. A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don’t try to knock her down with it.-Mark Twain