#compliments

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly... ↗

— Sappho

#compliments #beauty

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#compliments #insults #leave #prepared #us

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#compliments #country #dollars #ever #few

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

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #mouths #sent #sign #their

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

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

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#cares #carpet #compliments #feel #glamorous

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

— Oscar Wilde

#between #compliments #difference #disarmed #men

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#appreciate #compliments #many #much #personal

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. ↗