#compliment

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. ↗

— Herman Melville

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I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one. ↗

— Mario Monti

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A lot of the players are very complimentary about each other; they embrace at the end of matches because the level of the tennis has been so good. I think that's something that tennis has got to be proud of. ↗

— Andy Murray

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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man. ↗

— Beth Orton

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The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

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I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you. ↗

— Andy Richter

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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ↗

— James Taylor

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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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