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• I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Enough

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Irony, Insult, Form

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.52

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• If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

  John Bunyan

  Life, Criticism, Matter

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• When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

  Alexander Pope

  Two, People, Choices

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

  James Taylor

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Suffering

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

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• Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, Receiving, Worthy

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me

  Harry Dean Stanton

  People, Streets

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• It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Nice, Compliments You, People

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• Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Two, Together

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

  Robert Wagner

  Impersonate

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• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

  Jackson Pollock

  Abstract Painting, Expressionism, Abstract Art

  Quoted in FrancisVO'Connor Jackson Pollock (1967).

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Appreciation, People, Would Be

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• I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

  Alice James

  Believe, Twenties, Minutes

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• You are so beautiful to me.

  Billy Preston

  Beautiful

  Song: You Are So Beautiful

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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Public Opinion, Citizens, Comeback

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.368, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

  Clarence Clemons

  Song, Player, Horny

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• I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

  Morton Feldman

  Country, Government, Australia

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

  Dave Edmunds

  Guitar, Way, Lowes

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• I can take criticisms but not compliments.

  James Taylor

  Criticism, I Can

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

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• Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Thinking

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• The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

  Evel Knievel

  Men, Gold, Pay

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• There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

  Eydie Gorme

  Appreciate

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• I never get tired of hearing compliments.

  John Lithgow

  Tired, Hearing

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