Top Compliment Quotes
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus 
Abraham Lincoln All Compliment Quotes
So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.
Sean Booth 
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I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
Beth Orton
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Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.
Robert Wagner
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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
Calista Flockhart
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
Burton Lane
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If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
Shania Twain
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot
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