There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

She who boasts of lovers soon has none.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.

Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.

A beautiful woman delights the eye a wise woman the understanding a pure one the soul.

Enthusiasms like stimulants are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion the other by it.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

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.

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.