"It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment."
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"If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use."
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"People don't usually compliment your character."
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"It's always nice to receive a compliment."
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"Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book."
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"A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others."
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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."
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"For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed."
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"I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment."
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"Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do.""
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"There is nothing more flattering than a woman to say 'I'm a fan' or 'I think you're beautiful.' I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman."
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"I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough."
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"She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die."
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"To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it."
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"One compliment can keep me going for a whole month."
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"You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism."
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"None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses."
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"They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments."
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"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
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"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful."
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