Mark Twain once said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I can live for two months,” confessed Mark Twain, “on a good compliment.

It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions.

YOU LOOK GREAT: This one’s a no-brainer, right? After spending a significant amount in a relationship, they still love hearing that our partner finds them attractive. This is particularly the case if they’ve been putting in some time at the gym. Your compliments serve as a reward for their hard work and as motivation to keep them going.

If the shortest distance to any man’s heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.

I do not make any pretense that I dislike compliments. The stronger the better and I can manage to digest them.

... who cares for a general compliment more than a general lover.

One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.