Compliment Quotes
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Everybody likes compliment.
Abraham Lincoln
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
William Shenstone
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It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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An Italian piazza was my vision - a place where people would come and meet, see an exhibition, browse through books, have a drink, eat, rest, shop. Even today, the best compliment is when someone tells me that they were having a difficult day, and when they came here, they felt better.
Carla Sozzani
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane Austen
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Artur Schnabel, one of the towering pianists of the twentieth century. Modified in tone but not spirit from Schnabel’s interview remarks in Chicago the same year Germany surrendered to the Allies. She also knew this was about as high a compliment as Paul Mandelbaum was capable of making. Schnabel’s performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas were possibly the only thing her mentor was capable of carrying on about ad nauseam. You were never going to enter his pantheon of star pupils unless you gave yourself over, heart and soul, to Schnabel’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Klaviersonaten and the virtuoso’s idea that the greatest music was that which is “better than it can be performed.
Bradford Morrow
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
C. S. Lewis
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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
Tony Blair
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Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done,
I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
Spider Robinson
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It is probably the best validation, the best compliment: that when somebody says you are getting good things in life, and you deserve this.
Vicky Kaushal
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My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.
Tori Spelling
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I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.
William Clark Green
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Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katharine Tynan
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
Alexander McQueen
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Being compared to that man Michael Jordan, who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the greatest ever, is an amazing compliment, but I still want to be looked at as an individual and have my own lane and my own career and looked at as "That's Mike." "That' s Michael B."
Michael B. Jordan