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Plautus

(254—184 B.C.), comic Roman playwright

I much prefer a compliment, insincere or not, to sincere criticism.

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backhanded compliment

[backhanded compliment] {n. phr.} A remark that sounds like a compliment but is said sarcastically. * /"Not bad for a girl" the coach said, offering a backhanded compliment./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[fish for a compliment] {v. phr.} To try to make someone pay a compliment. * /When Jim showed me his new car, I could tell that he was fishing for […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

return the compliment

[return the compliment] {v. phr.} To say or do the same to someone that he has said or done to you; pay someone back. * /Mary said, "I love your […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Seneca

(3 BC--65 AD), Roman playwright While we are postponing, life speeds by. www.english-slang.com

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