When you negate someone’s compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You’re telling them they wasted their time.
Compliment Quotes
I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.
One of the commodities in life that most people can’t get enough of is compliments. The ego is never so intact that one can’t find a hole in which to plug a little praise. But compliments, by their nature, are highly biodegradable and tend to dissolve hours or days after we first receive them – […]
It is a talent by itself to pay compliments gracefully and have them ring true. It’s an art by itself.
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self-respect.
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me – I always feel that they have not said enough.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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 whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.
