#compliments

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

— Sappho

#compliments #beauty

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#compliments #forget #hang #head #i

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #compliments #cowards #deserve #english

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

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

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #celebrated #comfortable #compliments #confident

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

— Oscar Wilde

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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

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.' ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#compared #compliments #could #ever #get