#compliment

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself! ↗

— Alvin Lee

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Everybody likes a compliment. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#everybody #likes

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.' ↗

— Clarence Clemons

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Black as night and as beautiful as forever. ↗

— Stephen King

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Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#eyes #glasses #near-sighted #dreams

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#compliment #men #men

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#distrust #love #love