I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me;
I always feel that they have not said enough. ---Mark Twin
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. ----Alistair Cooke
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. ----Katherine F. Gerould
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
----Kin Hubbard
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her,
and it's usually the last. ---HelenRowland