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Compliments You Quotes (page 3)

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer. Richard Dawkins
Gregor, open up, I'm pleading with you.' But Gregor had absolutely no intention of opening the door and complimented himself instead on the precaution he had adopted from his business trips of locking all the doors during the night even at home. Franz Kafka
Give your child a compliment and a hug; say, ‘I love you’ more; always express your thanks. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Friends move away, children grow up, loved ones pass on. It’s so easy to take others for granted, until that day when they’re gone from our lives and we are left with feelings of ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ …Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey and share our love with friends and family. One day, each of... Thomas S. Monson
Best putdown of a copy editor ever award goes to Raymond Chandler, who, in a 1947 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote: "By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax... Raymond Chandler
Suzanne Collins quote: "If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the..."
If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush. Suzanne Collins
Mark Twain quote: "A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as..."
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. Mark Twain
Wayne Gretzky quote: "The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I..."
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. Wayne Gretzky
I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding. Bill Dickey
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. Jackson Pollock
Elbert Hubbard quote: "A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments..."
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. Elbert Hubbard
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility! Kate Winslet
Walter Jon Williams quote: "If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your..."
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. Walter Jon Williams
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. Alistair Cooke
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. Mitch Hedberg

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