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«Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
comfortable, compliment, element, granted, taken for granted, trusted
«Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.»
Author: Jackson Pollock
(Painter)
| Keywords:
abstract, abstract painting, back end, compliment, confronts, pictures, picture writing, reviewer, reviewers, wrote
«A compliment is verbal sunshine»
«A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
compliment, complimented, veil, veiling, veils
«Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| Keywords:
compliment, Donald, Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, ruthless
«A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apotheosis, asks, cherish, compliment, disgrace, expecting, incessantly, pays, religiously, to each other
«Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.»
«An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
compliment, keep up, occasional, respect, self-respecting, self respect
«A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.»
«As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
acknowledgment, compliment, hypocrisy, The Force
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