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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Source: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act -
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
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Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
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The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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