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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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• 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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• 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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• I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

  Jennifer Garner

  Children, Nice, Middle Child

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• The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

  Jeff Abbott

  Reading, Entertainment, Notes

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• My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

  Tori Spelling

  Stories, Kind, Life Story

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• Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Feigning, Merry

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [110]

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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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• There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

  Rose Byrne

  Giving, Attention, Intensity

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• Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Compliments You, Succeed, Insult

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare (1909). “Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet”

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• The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

  Nathaniel Branden

  Essentials, Humans, Paid

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.273, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

  Jethro Tull

  Sea, Forever, Skins

  Song: Budapest

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• We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Delight, Lovers

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.

  Stanley Donen

  Mean, People, Style

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• People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

  Linda Cardellini

  Ideas, People, Firsts

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

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• Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

  Dolly Parton

  Body

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• I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Narrative, Jazz

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• It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gone, Worship, Confession

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

  David Bowie

  Men, Hey, Faces

  Song: Suffragette City

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