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• I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Next, Stranger

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• Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Pleasant, Hard

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Fire, Compliments You

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.253, Penguin

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• Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

  Daniel Handler

  Want, Way, Flattery

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• Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

  Bernie Siegel

  Positive, Land, Receiving

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• It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

  Patricia Highsmith

  Late

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.136, She Winked Press

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• Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Fighting, Feelings

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• You are so . . . odd." "I shall take that as a compliment." -Thor to No'One

  J.R. Ward

  Odd

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• I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

  Patrick deWitt

  Unusual, Closest

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.8, Granta Books

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• You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

  Julia Quinn

  Dark, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Feb 26, 2015

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• He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Color, Rainbow, Majority

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• It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Intoxicated

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

  Suzanne Collins

  About Yourself, Audience, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mind, Wade, Useless

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• Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.

  Julie Garwood

  Stupid, Responsibility, Men

  Julie Garwood (2011). “For the Roses”, p.117, Penguin

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• From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.

  Veronica Roth

  Technology, Compliments You, Order

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• You sure about this?" I asked Thalia. She turned to me. "Amaltheia leads me to good things. The last time she appeared, she led me to you." The compliment warmed me like a cup of hot chocolate. I'm a sucker that way. Thalia can flash those blue eyes, give me one kind word, and she can get me to do pretty much whatever.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Blue, Giving

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• A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

  Golda Meir

  Men, Israel, Doubt

  "Israel’s Iron Lady Unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir Quotes on Her 117th Birthday" by Judd Yadid, www.haaretz.com. May 03, 2015.

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• "You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

  John Green

  Smart, Said

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Ignorance, Brave

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Kissing, Love Is, Audacity

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• I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.

  David Levithan

  Dream, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.

  Sarah Vowell

  Party, Independent, Thinking

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• The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sleep, Grandchildren

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• Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Broken Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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