False Compliments Quotes & Sayings

I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy ... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments. — Norman Mailer

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee

Hardships make or break people. — Margaret Mitchell

Character is plot, plot is character. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment - meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion - but that you find to be completely false, rather than argue, it's much better to just say thank you, or I appreciate that and strive to be that compliment. Fools fight compliments, she'd said, and sometimes other people see you better than you can see yourself. — Penny Reid

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose. — Albert Einstein

You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will. — Rachel E. Carter

When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and on the outside, arranged on arcs of fine wire, electrons. Turning the key on the side made the electrons move, what she'd thought were ball bearings actually finely crafted spheres of glass that sparked with color. A brilliant, thoughtful, wonderful gift for a physics major.
"Why magnesium?" she asked, identifying the atomic number of the light metal. His hand on her jaw, his mouth on her own. "Because it's beautifully explosive, just like my X. — Nalini Singh

And learn the luxury of doing good. — Oliver Goldsmith

Don't clock off from life, you are still standing and that is testament there is more to live. Embrace life. — Tony Curl

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. — Ralph Merkle

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

When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair. — Anton Chekhov