“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.”

“In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.”

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.”

“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”

“A light compliment was never yet breathed by love.”

“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.”

“… who cares for a general compliment more than a general lover.”

“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”