Compliment Quotes - Page 26

• Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Support Systems, Reason, Make You Happy

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

  William Matthews

  Character, Men, Differences

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• Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Vanity, Court, Feds

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.169

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• Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Women, Handsome

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• The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Women, Addresses, Finest

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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• Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, May, Able

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.17

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• It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

  Criss Jami

  Counter Attack, Feet, Hug

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Energy, Paper

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which happened to me on other things so you're always trying for a delicate balance - I also think that they compliment each other so well.

  Mike Binder

  Drama, Thinking, Always Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.

  Michael Buble

  People, Upset, Young

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous
  nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the
  result of voters from the members of my own
  profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's
  work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as
  I was when I received mine.

  Bette Davis

  Pride, Proud, Oscars

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• Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Brave Face, Soul

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• The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.

  Terry Hoeppner

  Kids, Successful, Thinking

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

  Irving Chernev

  Pay, Masters, Capablanca

  "The Chess Companion". Book by Irving Chernev, 1970.

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• As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

  Arsene Wenger

  Sorry, Winning, Player

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• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Laughing, Guy

  "Kerby’s Exclusive Interview with Metal Icon Alice Cooper". Interview with Jeff Kerby, www.knac.com. September 22, 2005.

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• I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Names, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.

  Matt Dillon

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  "Best Is Yet to Come, Says Actor Matt Dillon". The Daily Oklahoman, May 02, 1997.

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• Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Facts, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry David Thoreau (1929). “Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer”

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• When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

  Marianne Moore

  Honesty, Frank

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.94, Univ of California Press

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• The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

  Winston Churchill

  People, Diplomatic Relations, Republic

  "Foreign Affairs". In the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 17, 1949.

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• Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

  Ann Landers

  Opportunity, Giving, Wells

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni

  Adam Gilchrist

  Play, Ms Dhoni, Bats

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