There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. – Kin Hubbard
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. – Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. – Wilson Mizner
I can live for two months on a good compliment. – Mark Twain
What flatterers say, try to make true. – German Proverb
Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity. – John Addington Symonds
Flattery works like a drug. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. – A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. – George Chapman
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
God was just showing off when he created you. – From the movie Keeping the Faith
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore
