#compliment

Fine." I glared at him and shook my head. Stubborn idiot. "But at least try to look a little more raider-ish, okay? We don't want to attract attention." Zeke's snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. "Allie, you're a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it's not going to be me." I didn't answer as we crossed the flimsy, creaking bridge into the lair of the vampire king. If Zeke had asked, I would've said that I was thinking of how to find everyone, but that wasn't entirely true. I was thinking of the others and how I was going to get them out alive...but I kept being distracted by the thought that Zeke had called me beautiful. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#compliment #zeke-crosse #beauty

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#eyes #glasses #near-sighted #dreams

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#children #compliment #correspondence #hero #heroic

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#compliment #men #men

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#distrust #love #love

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. ↗

— Mark Twain

#been #complimented #embarrass #enough #feel

I really lack the words to compliment myself today. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#i #lack #myself #really #today

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

— Oscar Wilde

#between #compliments #difference #disarmed #men

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