Pastoral Resources

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.