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• I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Real, Artist, People

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• When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Flower, People, Giving

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• You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you’re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say “Hey! This toy is broken!” and toss you aside without feeling bad.

  Emma Forrest

  Sexy, Men, Broken

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• Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Work, Average, People

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• Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're everybody's best friend.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Fighting, Warrior

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.265, Penguin UK

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• New socialize by insulting each other, but don`t really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don`t really mean it

  Granger Smith

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

  Albert Brooks

  Pigs, Bigs

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• Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.

  Gregory J. P. Godek

  Love You, Romance, Hug

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• If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Cooking, Ifs

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• I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

  Carl Everett

  Pitcher

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• When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

  Mark Twain

  Doe, Complaining, Violence

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• The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

  Mark Batterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Hair, Diversity

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1085, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Football, Passion, Fans

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Congratulations, Taken, Ink And Paper

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• All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

  David Sedaris

  Lying, Made, Immune

  David Sedaris (1998). “The Santaland Diaries ; And, Season's Greetings”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

  Burton Cummings

  Thinking, Sound, Highest

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• Compliment but do not covet.

  Christopher Moore

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• If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Revenge, Men, Return

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.485

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• The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

  Lord Chesterfield

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cost, Civility, Courtesy

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• My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doctors, Philosopher, Made

  Bertrand Russell (1967). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914-1944: 1914/1944”

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• Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Gentleman, Pay

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• Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.

  Dave Willis

  Love, Marriage, Stress

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• Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Suicide, World, May

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