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A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.

Bucky Waters, on Tom Hammonds
That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

Edward Thomas
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

From the movie Keeping the Faith
God was just showing off when he created you.

George Chapman
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

George Moore
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

German Proverb
What flatterers say, try to make true.

Hartley Coleridge
Her very frowns are fairer farThan smiles of other maidens are.

Helen Rowland
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

Homer Simpson
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.

John Addington Symonds
It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

Jules Renard
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Kin Hubbard
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess
Current among men,Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Lord Chesterfield
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Mark Twain
I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Mark Twain
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.

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