I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when read more

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

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

A compliment is verbal sunshine

A compliment is verbal sunshine

Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.

Never compare what other do best but do compare what you do best.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful read more

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.