Compliment Quotes - Page 11

• A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Giving, Feel Good

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2015

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• It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Strong, Compliments You, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and you want to resonate with your audience. It's always a great compliment to have people appreciate and speak of the characters. I can go anywhere in the world, to places where people don't actually speak English, and people can say, verbatim, what I said on the show as Mr. Eko, which is great. That's fun!

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Fun, Moving, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

  Chapman Cohen

  Lying, Conquer, Persecution

  Chapman Cohen (1900). “Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings”

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• I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.

  Bipasha Basu

  Girl, Moving, Way

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Pockets, Cost

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• The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Years, People

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• Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  William Prynne

  Christian, Song, Kissing

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• Dolly is a legend. Jessica is so beautiful. I take it as a big compliment when people put me beside them. About being compared to Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson on the Idol red carpet.

  Kellie Pickler

  Beautiful, Idols, People

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• Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Self Harm, Ears, Way

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.40, Rudyard Kipling

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• When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

  Amanda Beard

  Winning, People, Gorgeous

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• She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

  Bob Dylan

  Moon, Voice

  Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.

  Ricky Martin

  Rain, Clothes, Dancing

  Song: Livin' la Vida Loca, Album: Ricky Martin

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• You can't eat compliments.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Praise

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• Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

  Alice Clayton

  Girl, Moving, Compliments You

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Heart, Our Generation

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• She's a total bam bam.

  David Bowie

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• I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey
  number retired was the ultimate compliment.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Blessed, Numbers

  Interview with Art Eddy, manjr.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Book, Looks, Wake Up

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• She's got a smile that heals me.

  Billy Joel

  Heal

  Song: She's Got a Way, Album: Cold Spring Harbor, 1971

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• The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.

  Lionel Richie

  Mother, Love You, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

  George Best

  Soccer, Football, Cristiano Ronaldo

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• Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Choices, Dignity

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• She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

  Elvis Costello

  Eye, Faces, Magnet

  Song: Watching The Detectives, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Might, Pitiful

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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