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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.
I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
'Populism' is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.
I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.
'Click' is a horror film and a first for me. People think I always had a face good enough to do films of this genre. So now I'd take that as a compliment.
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.
The Chitranna song from Buddhivanta' has done wonders and turned things around for me. Everyone's humming it, including kids, and that's a huge compliment.
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.
I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I would get a compliment if I wore a blue shirt.
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.
I know you pretty well." "Better than anyone I think." I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.
For people to keep saying, 'We want to see more of this guy, even though the shows have not always been out-of-the-box successes,' is a huge compliment to me.
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.
My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.
Everybody likes a compliment.
She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get the job done despite the obstacles he'll face.
She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.
I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.
I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.
If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
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.
Everybody appreciates a compliment.
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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.