23rd January: Compliment Day

It's Compliment Day. Here are 10 quotes about compliments.

1. You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone. Dean Wareham
2. When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. Sun Tzu
3. Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. Thomas Fuller
4. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. Oscar Wilde
5. It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much. Maria Bamford
6. We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. Mason Cooley
7. A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. Elbert Hubbard
8. It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. Oscar Wilde
9. Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot. William Faulkner
10. True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments. Sabrina Newby

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