“ What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations.". ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
- 456
“ A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ”
- Eleanor Hamilton- Copy
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“ When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. ”
- Socrates- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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 caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ”
- Leo F. Buscaglia- Copy
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“ To be trusted is always greater a compliment than to be loved. ”
- George Marshall- Copy
- 422
“ By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first: showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 107
“ 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. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 471
“ If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 1.8K
“ No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 1K
“ Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful — just as one is angrier for being told one is angry. ”
- Katherine F. Gerould- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ”
- Sun tzu- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.9K
“ When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
- 1.2K
“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”
- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza- Copy
- 922
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