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«To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Being Trusted,
Compliments,
Love,
Trust
| Keywords:
being, compliment, complimented, greater, is a, loved, to be, trusted
«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.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Caring,
Compliments,
Kindness,
Power,
Smile
| Keywords:
Act of, all of, caring, compliment, complimented, ear, honest, listening, potential, potentials, smallest, the smallest, touch, underestimate, underestimated, underestimates, underestimating
«There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering»
Author: Minna Antrim
| About:
Being a Woman,
Compliments,
Truth
| Keywords:
compliment, latter, oblique, unflattering
«A compliment is verbal sunshine»
«Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone»
Author: Arab Proverb
| About:
Compliments,
Insults
| Keywords:
carved, carved in stone, compliments, insults
«To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Compliments
| Keywords:
ceremony, conferring, dispense with, mode
«Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke»
«For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay»
«I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Compliments
| Keywords:
complaint, compliment, courteous, insured, insures, insuring, precede, reception, receptions, resentment, softens
«I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Compliments,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
complimented, compliments, enormously, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, her, mean, pleasing, says, see, Seeing Things, should, The Whole Man, whole, why, woman
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