Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
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I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.
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Engelska felsägningar:
He is a funny prick!
My compliments to the cock
In Sweden we have fartcontrols
Excuse me for raping at the table!
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
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That it is not lawful to give to men such flattering titles as, Your Holiness, Your Majesty, Your Eminency, Your Excellency, Your Grace, Your Lordship, Your Honor, &c., nor use those flattering words commonly called compliments.
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You can't eat compliments.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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Compliments are relationship lubricators.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
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