Unhappiness is best and often concealed with a smile; jealousy, with a compliment.

All too often the compliment we have just been paid is merely a repayment for the compliment we have just paid.

Whether we regard someone’s opinion as a fact or as an opinion depends on whether they are criticizing or complimenting us.

A great person or thing does not gain even a fraction of a single degree of greatness, when complimented; or lose it, when not complimented.

Once you realize that the vast majority of people see and know very little, you will rarely be affected when someone speaks ill or well of you.

Most people’s lives are to the average person not important like, or as important as, their opinions about him or her.

We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.