Compliment Quotes

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

  William Feather

  Complaints, Know How, Knows

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• Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Weakness

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2012

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• To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "The Marquis of Lossie".

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• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Sex, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

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• A compliment is verbal sunshine.

  Robert Orben

  Sunshine

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• Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

  Bill Walsh

  Inspirational, Sports, Gratitude

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  There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Baffled, Insult

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• Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

  Michael Dolan

  Pay, Wealthy

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• If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Inexpensive

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• I never get tired of hearing compliments.

  John Lithgow

  Tired, Hearing

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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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• Everybody likes a compliment.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, President, Likes

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• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

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• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Best Friend, Christian, Children

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• Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes.

  Chris Rock

  Shoes, Water, Needs

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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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• I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Art, Inspire

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• I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

  Beth Orton

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Compliments You, Cost, Pay

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• Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

  Suzanne Enoch

  Looks, Argument, Desperate

  Suzanne Enoch (2011). “A Beginner's Guide to Rakes”, p.195, Macmillan

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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