Quotes about compliment
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Quotes about compliment

Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed

As quoted in The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, as translated by Wheeler M. Thackston (2002), p. xxvii

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)

On pop groups like N'Sync, as quoted in interview in TV Guide (1 November 2001)

The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry (1923)
Context: What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains — the bond of fellowship — the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal — the fellowship of spirit.

“you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.”

Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

1850s, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1857)

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Female Power http://www.julienewmarwrites.com/story.php?idStory=122 (April 28, 2017)

Letter to Gertrude Natkin, 2 March 1906 http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/53b4cf90-7739-0132-f12c-58d385a7b928

“I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.”
In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature. Quoted in LIFE, Editorials: "A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age", 26 May 1952
1950s

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.”
Mrs. Cheveley, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

On individuals' impressions of Walken, interview in Randy Cordova (December 22, 2002) "Workaholic Walken Is Marvelous 'Catch'", The Arizona Republic, p. E3.

Letter to Joseph Huey (6 June 1753); published in Albert Henry Smyth, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, volume 3, p. 145.
Epistles

“Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty-two,
Was no great compliment!”
Canto 1
Phantasmagoria (1869)

Message to fans on the ending of Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/tv-news/pyaar-kii-actors-get-nostalgic-about-the-show/
On her shows

Israel’s Iron Lady unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir quotes on her 117th birthday, Yadid, Judd, 2015-05-03, English, Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.654218,
Source: Magic Bites

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)

"The Friend. The Improvisatore" (1828)

“It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.”

LOVE (1972)
Variant: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
“I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.”
Source: The Darkest Seduction

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”
Source: Burn for Me

“Women need food, water, and compliments
That's right.
And an occasional pair of shoes.”

to the minister of England."
Ireland and America (1846)

Re: Setting a property in a symbol http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/80bdf64552957f61 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Lisp

"Spiced Crambe", Liberty Bell magazine (March 1993)
1990s

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (illustrated) by Maria Mitchell, 1896, p. 189.

Legal Life and Humour (1916), edited by Joseph Heighton, p. 49

On conductor George Enescu, in "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939) and A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Lightning Wit Plays On American Musical Scene; Oscar Levant Answers Unspoken Request for 'Information, Please' With Uncensored Comments on Exalted Persons" by Ray C. B. Brown, in The Washington Post (January 14, 1940), p. E4

Speech in Edinburgh (25 September 1924), quoted in The Times (26 September 1924), p. 14
Early career years (1898–1929)

Nehemiah Curnock, ed., 'The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.', London, Charles H. Kelly, vol. 5, p. 265 https://archive.org/stream/a613690405wesluoft#page/265/mode/1up (entry of 25 May 1768)
General sources

Source: On canvassing for election, quoted in 'The Faction-Fights', Bentley's Quarterly Review, 1, (1859), p. 355
Review http://www.reelviews.net/movies/w/whats_worst.html of What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001).
One-and-a-half star reviews

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 9, p. 243
Referenced

“I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong”
During an interview in the latter years of his career http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YOti0icEbw
Clyfford Still in an interview with Ti Grace Sharpless, 1963; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 201
1960s

"How I Became a Socialist", New York Call (3 November 1912)
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 4

Be Not Afraid, Only Believe, CES Fireside for Young Adults, September 9, 2001.

On Ryan Giggs, (2009) http://www.insideworldsoccer.com/2009/12/ryan-giggs-player-of-decade.html

Adam Gilchrist https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/dhoni-quotes/
"Tierra Blanca" Bryant Literary Review, Vol. 11 (2010)
2010-

Book V, ch. 1
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

Letter to niece Anna (1814-11-30) regarding characters in Anna's novel [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Suzanne Stephens, "Florida Renaissance — Italianate Splendors Enrich A Villa in Naples", Architectural Digest, October 2000, v. 57 #10, pp. 284-298.
“Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100