A Quote by Mark Twain

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

Jerry Spinelli

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

Maria V. Snyder

No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.

Nikki Glaser

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Mark Twain

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

Jen Sincero

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

Burton Cummings

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

Ben Mendelsohn

It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

Stromae

I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.

Liz Prince

You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

Yoko Ono

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

Shania Twain

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

Lynsay Sands

Everyone knows that a compliment goes a very long way, and you never know what someone's going through in their life - giving them a compliment might mean the world to them.

Gigi Gorgeous

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

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