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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
Lara Flynn Boyle

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.
Don Nickles

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.
Lisa Leslie

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Clarence Clemons

It is quite too transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

I must compliment you.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
Joseph Epstein

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Walter Jon Williams

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

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow

For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.
Eva Herzigova

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Helen Rowland

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
Deborah Cox

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson

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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