#compliments

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

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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

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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I can take criticisms but not compliments. ↗

— James Taylor

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...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly... ↗

— Sappho

#compliments #beauty

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#compliments #forget #hang #head #i

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

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