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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

3.4 · 56 votes

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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

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Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

4.4 · 25 votes · 100 reads

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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

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WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

4.0 · 53 votes

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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Abraham Lincoln

PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

4.7 · 40 votes

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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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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.3 · 36 votes

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

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

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Marquis de Vauvenargues

WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

3.3 · 64 votes · 191 reads

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.5 · 60 votes · 139 reads

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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

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WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.9 · 52 votes · 44 reads
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me -I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.5 · 53 votes · 132 reads
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
3.5 · 61 votes · 111 reads
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Charles Caleb Colton
AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century
4.1 · 10 votes · 118 reads
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When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
5.0 · 33 votes · 14 reads
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.0 · 45 votes · 123 reads
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