Quotes & Sayings About Compliments And Insults

Is she always like this? I mean, it's like she's confused insults for compliments. — Nicole Williams

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. — Mason Cooley

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. — Mary Schmich

You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch. — Scott Lynch

You know. The looks. The verbal jousting. The smiles. The insults that are really compliments. — Ann Ormsby

You sell your own wares,then.Are you clever at it?"
Shelby lifted her wine. "I like to think so." Tossing her hangs out of her eyes, she turned to Alan. "Would you say I was clever at it, Senator?"
"Amazingly so," he returned. "For someone without any sense of organization, you manage to work at your craft,run a shop,and live precisely as you choose."
"I like odd compliments," Shelby decided after a moment. "Alan's accustomed to a more structured routine. He'd never run out of gas in the freeway."
"I like odd insults," Alan murmured into his wine.
"Makes a good balance. — Nora Roberts

As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts. — Kate Christensen

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami