Compliment Quotes
687 quotes by 549 authors
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
— Victoria Beckham
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that…
— Mary J. Blige
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
— Albert Brooks
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
— Joyce Brothers
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
— Samuel Butler
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an…
— Nick Cave
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a…
— Tommy Chong
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
— Luc de Clapiers
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the…
— Clarence Clemons
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
— Mark Twain
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
— Sun Tzu
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march…
— Sun Tzu
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The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want…
— Pat Summitt
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There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.
— Dale Carnegie
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I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
— Alberto Tomba
Who Wrote These Compliment Quotes
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