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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• A compliment is verbal sunshine.

  Robert Orben

  Sunshine

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• She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

  Mark Twain

  Determination, Dies, Deserve

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4206, Delphi Classics

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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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• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kissing, Veils

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1169, My Ebook Publishing House

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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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• Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

  Michael Dolan

  Pay, Wealthy

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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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• She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

  Gillian Flynn

  Like You, Easy, Understood

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.257, Broadway Books

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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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• 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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• An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Self Respect, Occasional

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

  Herman Melville

  Left Handers, Literature, Lefties

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.520, Library of America

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Kindness, Compassion

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• It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Inexpensive

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• I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

  Alberto Tomba

  Sports, Thinking, Today

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• Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Compliments You, Pay

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• It's been amazing to watch, because for Thor, which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Book, Issues, Watches

  "Holding the Hammer: JMS Talks Thor". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 17, 2008.

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• Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

  Peggy Noonan

  Friendship, True Friend, Communication

  "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era". Book by Peggy Noonan, 1990.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Baffled, Insult

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• Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Favors, Flattery, Valuable

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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