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Banish all compliments but single truth, From every tongue, and every shepherd's heart, Let them use still persuading, but no art. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. - John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 122) When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. - Alexander Pope 'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i) Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. - William Shenstone Compliments are only lies in court clothes. - John Sterling A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem. - Abel Stevens, Life of Madame de Stael (ch. III) Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess (pt. II, l. 40) Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction. - Henry David Thoreau
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