Things People Do Without Being Told

Are More Powerful Than They Look

Create Obligations

Create Ripples

Cut Both Ways

Depend On Timing More Than Quality

Fall Flat

Feel Misplaced

Feel Secondhand

Feel Too Personal To Explain

Happen Between Two People

Lift You

Miss The Mark

Need An Audience

Need Witnesses

Never Quite Land

Only Get Said Out Loud

Pretend To Be Small

Ring False

Ring Hollow

Sink In

Sit In Your Stomach

Sit Wrong

Turn Out To Matter

compliment

corn

dad joke

flirting

negging

taking credit

woman

battle of the sexes

one-liner

being literal

gaslighting

my wife left me

sexism

sexual harassment

butt

poop

makeup

paranoia

social anxiety

feedback

taking criticism

affection

self-consciousness

is dust thrown into the eyes of· those whom we want to dupe.

compliment : Dust thrown into the eyes of· those whom we want to dupe.

is a necessary thing from time to time to keep up one's self-respect.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. Mark Twain

is psychological nourishment. Many of us can live for two months on a good compliment.

I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain

is valued even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. Mark Twain

is capable of being eloquent only as an expression of indifference.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

is something you say to another which both of you know isn't true.

A compliment is something you say to another which both of you know isn't true.

is the soft soap that wipes out a dirty look.

A compliment is the soft soap that wipes out a dirty look.

compliment, n.All

compliment