Quotes with compliment

  • I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
  • If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Nelson Mandela If you see something good, give a compliment. If you see something wrong, offer your help.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bailey Chase 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Victor Hugo A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Victor Hugo A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Augustus William Hare A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paving it.
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    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Calista Flockhart Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joyce Brothers Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Everybody likes a compliment.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Everyone loves a compliment
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mark Twain I can live for two months on a good compliment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clarence Darrow I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Alberto Tomba I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
    Alberto Tomba
     
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Vauvenargues If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Carlisle Floyd If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Dale Carnegie If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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