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“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”

Appreciation Compliment Delicate Ceremony

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.”

Writing Values Source Appreciation Compliment Doubtful Competencies

Book:The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)

Source: The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)

“When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.”

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Book:Sun Tzu Art of War

Source: Sun Tzu Art of War

“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”

Poor Rich Advice Return Compliment Comeback

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“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 up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.”

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Author:Sun Tzu

“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 to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.”

Source: Reach for the Summit

“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 to me.”

Inspirational Years Firsts Has Beens Sports Player First Time Soccer Compliment Inspirational Sports

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.”

Giving Remember Success Fear Giving Up Compliment Unjust Not Giving Up

Author:Dale Carnegie

“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.”

Thinking Today Sports Motivational Sports Compliment

Author:Alberto Tomba

“Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment”

“True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.”

Giving Love Is Forever Love You Compliment True Love Is

Author:Cecil B. Day

“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 treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.”

Ifs Needs Giving Looks Doubt Saws Treats Demon No Doubt Compliment Halloween Costumes

Author:Tommy Chong

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

“To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.”

Wells Art Compliment Flattery High Art

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.”

Art Said Lying Force Virtue Highest Hypocrisy Strongest Compliment Acknowledgment

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”

World Mean Whole Funny Asks Middle Worst Fields Whole World Cooks Restaurants Sarcastic Compliment Sandwiches

Author:Oscar Wilde

“While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.”

Thinking Men May Religious Results Election Grateful Add Satisfaction Conclusion Compliment Disappointed Sensible Almighty Countrymen Almighty God

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.”

Hope Women Advice Ears Praise Reaching Compliment Sister

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.”

“Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.”

Said Soul Taught Highest Shoes Shops Vegetarian Compliment Vegan Mum Funny Inspirational

Author:Stella McCartney

“Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.”

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Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.”

People Ifs Littles Would Be Appreciation Compliment

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”

People Should Love You Encouragement Celebrate Compliment Love Yourself Up To You Love Yourself More Compliments You

Author:Joel Osteen

“There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.”

Ifs Believe Wells Feelings Religion Sound Simple Atheism Direct Paid Don't Believe Compliment God We Trust

Book:MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…

Source: MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…

“...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.”

World May Age Grows Interest Hours Wise Refuse Driven Quitting Devotion Employment Compliment Retiring Unwilling Solace

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.”

Years Said Mother One Day Daughter Compliment Handsome Poppies

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.”

Wealth Produce Benefits Financial Compliment Flattery

Author:Mariette Hartley

“Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.”

Knows Deserve Compliment Flattery

Author:John Stride

“Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.”

Truth Winning Loses Honesty Compliment

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“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 radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'”

Knows Persons Song Player Heard Radio Compliment Horns Horny Saxophone

Author:Clarence Clemons

“Their incompatible appearances have actually made them more compatible ... Some people said that when a couple comes together ... they will compliment each others shortcomings”

People Made Said Together Couple Drama Appearance Compliment Shortcomings Compatible

Author:Bae Yong-joon

“She meant it as a compliment.”

Money Compliment

Author:Don Ameche

“How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?”

Sitting Cat Compliment Lap

Book:A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm

Source: A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm

“An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.”

Character Helping Honest Criticism Compliment Sincerely

Author:Nathan Eldon Tanner

“I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.”

Wife Husband Criticism Generous Thoughtful Compliment Kinder

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."”

Writing Reader Draws Compliment Signals Hints

Book:The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions

Source: The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions

“Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.”

Football Higher Ridiculous Compliment Zidane

Author:Jason McAteer

“At a wedding last week, my wife said: 'Isn't the bride beautiful ?' When I responded by saying, 'Yeah, but her blowjobs aren't half as good as yours', she got all pissed off. Women - they can't take a compliment!”

Said Lasts Beautiful Half Wife Week Yeah My Wife Compliment Brides Pissed Off

Author:David Henry

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”

“LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.”

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Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.”

Mean Remember Criticism Envy Kicks Compliment Unjust Jealously Unjust Criticism

Author:Dale Carnegie

“I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Letters

Source: Mark Twain's Letters

“No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.”

People Ifs Matter Poor Achieve Capacity Endure Endurance Compliment Poor People

Book:Big Machine

Source: Big Machine

“No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.”

Courses Sufficient Insult Compliment

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.”

People Reality Artist Actors Dying Ego Sensitive Compliment Hug

Author:Josh Brolin

“Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.”

Thinking Looks Different School Roles High School Compliment

Author:Carrie Preston

“I know who I am supposed to be with. Im just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I want to be so sure of everything in my life and be so good on my own that someone just comes in to compliment it. I want somebody who is happy. I dont want to meet someone who needs me. I want someone who is good on his own.”

Knows Want Needs Waiting My Own Who I Am Supposed To Be Compliment

Author:Amanda Bynes

“I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.”

Long Hard Successful Fans Huge Compliment Footsteps

Author:Jessica Simpson

“It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.”

People Way Want Might Nice Ugly Compliment Being Nice Superficial Compliments You

Author:Ryan Phillippe