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• The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Advice, Return, Comeback

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• You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

  Marty Feldman

  Mustache, Sincere, Offers

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• Alayana would forget my compliments

  Manisha Koirala

  Forget

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• Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

  Julie Newmar

  Beautiful, Giving, Intellectual

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• In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophical, Style, Dialect

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I am sure no compliment was intended.

  Peter Greenaway

  New York, Two, Vermeer

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• The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

  Michio Kaku

  Block, Cities, Brain

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• When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Attitude, Bodybuilding

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• Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, People

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• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to day, as long as we live-and the next moment we fret about how much we weigh. Or who we didn't send a Valentine. Or who forgot to compliment the dinner. Or whatever.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Appreciation, Valentine, Long

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

  Neel Burton

  Men, Firsts, Turns

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• Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

  Desmond Morris

  Long, Return, Monk

  desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”

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• In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Men, Weather

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.55, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

  Mark Twain

  Flattery, Delivery, Humans

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.130, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smell, Differences

  Amy Hempel (2010). “The Dog of the Marriage: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Kindness, Writing, Miracle

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• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Records, Definitions

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

  Tory Burch

  Ambition, Important, Titles

  "Tory Burch Explains The Importance Of Having Male Mentors" by Meredith Lepore, www.businessinsider.com. April 23, 2014.

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• I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

  P. T. Barnum

  Children, Laughing, Exhibitions

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• To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

  Gore Vidal

  Unique, Men, Two

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• I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.

  Adam Bandt

  Hate, Party, Australia

  FaceBook post by Adam Bandt from Feb 12, 2013

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• The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Soul, Everyday

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• Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 14, 2012

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• Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prayer, Flower, Giving

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.28, Amber-Allen Publishing

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