Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
-- Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
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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
1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
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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
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
-- Andre Gide
1869-1951, French Author
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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