Bill Walsh Quotes

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind.

The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise.

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.