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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Hunger, Praise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

  Joseph Epstein

  Distance, Giving, Looks

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• Everybody likes a compliment.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, President, Likes

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

  Plautus

  Criticism, Sincere, Ifs

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• To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

  Sidney Poitier

  Thinking, Enormous, Jackie

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• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Men, Criticism

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• In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Humanity, Pay

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

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• A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Appreciate, Pay, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.190, Xist Publishing

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• Do not miss a single chance - not one single opportunity - to tell someone how wonderful they are, how special they are, how important to you they are, how incredible as a person they are, how beautiful they are inside and out. Do not miss a single opening in which to insert such a comment, genuinely felt and genuinely meant.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Missing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 09, 2015

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• Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Pay, Pockets, Flattery

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• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Complaining, Resentment

  Mark Twain (1917). “Mark Twain's Letters”

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• Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

  Scott Caan

  Directors, Want, Mediocre

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

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• When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Wife, Funny Marriage

  "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl".

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• "True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

  Richard Rorty

  Way, Truth Is, Sentences

  "Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980". Book by Richard Rorty, 1982.

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• When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

  Helen Rowland

  Heart, Men, Giving

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Nashville, One Day

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• And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

  Jason Statham

  Movie, People, Come Up

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

  Dale Carnegie

  Names, Feelings, Add

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• When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.

  Joel Osteen

  Encouragement, Love You, Compliments You

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• A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Women, Doubt, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

  Voltaire

  Style, Addresses, Speech

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.202

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

  Mark Twain

  Self Esteem, Humorous, Compliments You

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• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Birthday, Men

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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