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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.
Demetri Martin
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You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.
Jonathan Tisch
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In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?
Elizabeth Wordsworth
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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
Ken Blanchard
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Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
Alice Clayton
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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
Jamais Cascio
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde
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It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.
Jeaniene Frost
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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Walter Jon Williams
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
Fran Lebowitz
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. Somerset Maugham
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When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
Corrie Ten Boom
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
Bill Vaughan
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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
Mark Twain
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You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
Annie Barrows
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When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
Helen Rowland
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An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.
Hesketh Pearson
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.
Jennifer Hudson
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My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
Joni Mitchell
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