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• We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Essence, Ideas, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.190

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• He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Sports, Missing, May

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• Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

  Julie Klausner

  Wings, Dumb, Consciousness

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• Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Sunshine, People, Rays

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, People, Criticism

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2016

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• Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything?

  Joe Tye

  Girl, Pain, Hate

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• Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Self

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.278, Penguin

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• People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.

  Matt LeBlanc

  People, Call Me, Joey

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• I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

  Andy Samberg

  Stupid, Immature, Pay

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• People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a woman who lives here in Paris...I know my street much better. Heels permit me to take the time to look at the architecture of my street. Now I take time to look at things.' High heels give you time to think, to look at your surroundings- a camel has seen more in life than a very quick horse! Women should live to rhythm of high-heeled shoes!

  Christian Louboutin

  Horse, Thinking, High Heels

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• You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

  Abraham Flexner

  True Friend, Meals, Lasts

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• When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life.

  Amy Arbus

  Home, Thinking, Looks

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  I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

  Jadakiss

  Cocky

  Song: New York Rap

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• For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Apes, Innocence

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• The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

  Jay Bilas

  Basketball, Player, Nba

  Jay Bilas (2013). “Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court”, p.28, Penguin

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• I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Healing, Doe, Sometimes

  "Darkness and Day". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1974.

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• God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tragic, Inexorable, Paid

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

  Ilie Nastase

  Interesting, Trying, Said

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• I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

  James L. Barksdale

  People, Leader, Given

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• Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Gratitude, Love Is, Appreciate

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Cutting, Our World, Opposites

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• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Ties, Design

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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