Quotes & Sayings About Fake Compliments

Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke. He was the only one in the band she called by name, implying a permanence to his position that was professionally reassuring but personally debilitating. When they wrote together or when one presented the other with something prepared in private, with no audience to absorb the excess, he felt the room crowding with their other selves, lives unled and correspondences unwritten, happiness opted against, and he could not believe she did not see it, too. He sweated to ornament her fears and tall tales and fake portraits, and with the remnants of his energy he hid the rest of himself from her. The best of him was a child's drawing of her on an off day. — Arthur Phillips

Success is a wonderful addition to my life. — Robert Munsch

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. — Wislawa Szymborska

If we aren't intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake. — Megan Fox

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval. — Criss Jami

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again. — Henry Williamson

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it. — Maya Angelou

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all. — Jody Gehrman

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself. — Marty Rubin

Where we stand depends on where we sit. — Stephen R. Covey

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. — Phyllis Schlafly

She kissed his eyebrow. "Not I. — Sandra Brown

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? — Johnny Carson

You see colors no one else can see
In every breath you hear a symphony
You understand me like nobody can
I feel like my soul unfolding like a flower blooming
When this whole world gets too crazy
And there's nowhere left to go
I know you give me sanctuary
You're the only truth I know
You're the road back home. — Backstreet Boys

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell. — Alice Cooper