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• The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Dark, Garden

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• A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Long, Trying

  Mark Twain (2015). “Sketches New and Old: Ghost Story Collections”, p.49, 谷月社

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• I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, War, America

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books

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• We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baseball, Pain

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Feelings, Paper, Body

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• Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Rational, Opposition

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 36, 1811.

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• Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Good Day, Hair

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• See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mean, Compliments You, People

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• Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Wine, Glasses

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they’ve been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that’s a twofer there. You get away with it and then they’re twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Mistake, Stupid

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• Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

  Rick Riordan

  Ancient, Egyptian, Limbs

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• Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

  Jane Austen

  Love, Missing, Age

  Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.163, Sparklesoup LLC

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• You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mean, Looks, Lingerie

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.188, Penguin

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• To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

  Jane Austen

  Yield, Understanding, Merit

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Thinking, Hair, Different

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.

  P. C. Cast

  Girl, True Love, Deception

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.591, Macmillan

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• You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Nice, Would Be

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things." OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.

  Brandon Sanderson

  People, Good Person, Moments

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.899, Tor Books

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• A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?

  Susane Colasanti

  Smart, Mean, Who I Am

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• Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

  Portia de Rossi

  Insults You, Giving, Insulting

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Kids, Doe

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts, that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

  Kate Winslet

  Stars, Responsibility, Thinking

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

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• My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

  Joni Mitchell

  Girl, Style, Frustrated

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• There is nothing more flattering than a woman to say 'I'm a fan' or 'I think you're beautiful.' I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.

  Marisa Miller

  Mean, Knows

  "Marisa Miller's Secret to a Six-Pack and How She Hides Her Cellulite" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. March 23, 2009.

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