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
Graham Nelson 
Deborah Cox 
Cat Deeley 
Robert Wagner 
Joyce Brothers 
Wayne Gretzky 
Voltaire 
Ryan Phillippe 
Herman Melville All Compliment Quotes
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Clare Boothe Luce 
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And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
Jason Statham
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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
Herman Melville
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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
Laurence Sterne
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As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
Matt LeBlanc
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Popular Compliment Authors
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