compliments

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.

Praise is warming and desirable . . . what the human race lives on like bread. But praise is an earned thing. It has to be deserved like an honorary degree or a hug from a child. A compliment is manna, a free gift.

Madame, that is by far the ugliest nose I have ever seen and I compliment you on it, it suits you!

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

He who fishes for compliments can expect to be handed a line.