When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
quote by Mark Twain
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The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.
quote by Jeremy Piven
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First Encounter - Krishen Jit
Krishen Jit
his words of compliment
taste sweetest
not ready for compliment
sweet recollection
it has become
(first met in early 1980s at the New Straits Times Office, KL)
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
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I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)
quote by Mark Twain
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Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.
quote by Judge Mills Lane
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Have I Ever?
Have I ever told you how beautiful you are?
How your beauty outshines the brightest of stars?
How I love that twinkle that sparks in your eye
How the world can brighten when you smile
Have I ever told you how wonderful you are?
How everything about you is as perfect as is
That nothing compares to the sight of you
You are more beautiful than I can ever describe
A compliment to your body...
Most fine and curled like a vase
A compliment to your personality
So gentle and kind with grace
You are a princess and the queen of my heart
You are the best that ever came into my arms
Only God can be thanked for the pleasure of knowing you
Thank you for your friendship and just being you
You are beautiful just as you are
And more beautiful than any star
You are perfect as just the way you are
So shine more brightly than any star
poem by Hafeni Nghidinua
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Self-Mocking
Whenever I self mock
over a compliment I have been given
it is not to insult the person who gave it,
more to injure myself.
I can cope with most things
that are given to me except compliments.
Sound Strange?
When I was growing up many years ago,
I was belittled by family and friends alike.
They made me feel like a misfit,
so a misfit I became.
I endured insults about me
in every way shape and form.
Compliments were never given
and became a stranger to me.
Now that I am older,
I do not stand easy
when compliments are given
and I have to mock myself
and make a parody out of me.
I grew up feeling useless in everything I did.
They did not realise what they were doing
and hurting that they caused. I
t was not jokes they threw at me,
but hurting insults that made me feel insecure.
Now when compliments come
I cannot accept them readily.
I cannot accept that anyone
would want to compliment me,
so I self mock myself you see.
10 November 2008
poem by David Harris
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Everybody likes a compliment.
quote by Abraham Lincoln
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It is a real compliment that comes from an enemy.
So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.
quote by Sean Booth
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
quote by Marquis De Vauvenargues
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
quote by Victor Hugo
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Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
quote by Kim Hubbard
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
quote by Victor Hugo
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
quote by Wayne Gretzky
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I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
quote by Alberto Tomba
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
quote by Mark Twain
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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.
quote by Samuel Richardson
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