#compliment

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#compliment #equality #friends #how #implies

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

#always #bad #because #been #believe

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#compared #compliments #could #ever #get

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#better #called #categorized #compliment #considered

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. ↗

— Plautus

#criticism #even #i #insincere #much

You stood up to the dragon so Beckendorf would have his chance to jump - now that was brave." "Or pretty stupid." "Percy, you're a brave guy," she said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#beckendorf #compliment #percy-jackson #chance

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#distrust #love #love

I can live for two months on a good compliment. ↗

— Mark Twain

#compliment #i #i can #live #months

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

— Mark Twain

#been #complimented #embarrass #enough #feel

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. ↗

— Shania Twain

#comfortable #compliment #does #feels #guess