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Category Archives: Compliments
When your Girlfriend asks you for a Favor
“Being thy slave what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do till you require.” (SON.57) Tips for Use. Answer to, ‘Will you do this for me?’ And/or a follow up after you already said yes Read More
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Shakespeare’s Roses as the Best Flower
“Of all Flowres, methinks a Rose is best” (The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use. Use as a compliment – the suggestion, by the way, does not proceed from the blog writer, but rather from an 18th manual of romantic behavior found in a library. That is, substitute the name of Read More
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Love at First Sight
“…The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service” (Tempest act 3 sc. 1) Tips for Use. In declarations of love the frontier between the romantic and the ridiculous is usually quite narrow. It is quite true that, “Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies they themselves Read More
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Compliment…. an angel, answer to question
“By Jupiter an angel, or if not, an earthly paragon. Behold divineness” (Cymbeline.3.6) Tips for Use. Show your astonishment at female perfection even if perfection may not be complete. Remember that flattery is the infantry of negotiations (Oscar Wilde). Or soothe her feelings in case of a previous disagreement leaving her to feel slighted. “Behold Read More
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Winter Blues
“… Or call it winter, which being full of care, Makes summer’s welcome thrice more wished, More rare.” (SON 56) In his stately and marching English Dr. Johnson wrote that, “”It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other what Read More
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Compliment for Valentine (or any other appropriate situation)
“More flowers I noted, yet none I could see, But sweet, or colour it had stolen from thee.” (SON 99) Tips for use. A good compliment never fails to work. “I could live for a month on a good compliment”, said Mark Twain. Write the topic quoted Shakespeare lines on a Valentine card or birthday, Read More
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Ageless Perfect Woman
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetite they feed, but she makes Hungry, where most she satisfies.” (AC.2.2) Tips on Use. Answer to “Will you always love me even when I am old?” Change the case of the particle from ‘her’ to you and from ‘she makes’ Read More
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