#compliment

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#critics #great #greater #imagined #men

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#compliments #criticism #form #projection #some

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#magnifico #romantic-praise #dreams

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#build #compliment #elements #his #how

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.' ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#came #compliment #cool #crowd #down

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points. ↗

— Iris Johansen

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