A compliment is verbal sunshine. - Robert OrbenI can live for two months on a good compliment. - Mark Twain
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self respect. - Mark Twain
It is fun to be in the same decade with you. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. - Robert Brault
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. - Henry David Thoreau
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. - Mark Twain
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. - Peggy Noonan
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. - Marquis De Vauvenargues
What flatterers say, try to make true. - German Proverb
The power of 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. - Leo F. Buscaglia
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. - Dale Carnegie
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each others dreams. - Henry David Thoreau