Compliment Quotes
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She's a total bam bam.
David Bowie
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I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
Barack Obama
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There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katharine Tynan
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I think that's a nice compliment to these guys and their effort. I like my team.
J. M. Roberts
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
William Shenstone
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New socialize by insulting each other, but don`t really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don`t really mean it
Granger Smith
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
Andy Samberg
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My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.
Tricia Helfer
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
C. S. Lewis
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Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."
Nicole Kidman
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
William Hazlitt
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
W. C. Brownell
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I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch tape. I consider that the ultimate compliment.
Richard Scarry
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A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.
Marvin J. Ashton
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I am thrilled to be honored by the Screen Actors Guild because I've been with it for such a long time. The Screen Actors Guild is sort of a highfalutin name for a union, and this union was always wonderful to work for. For the rank-and-file of the union to honor me is the best compliment I can receive.
Karl Malden
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I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.
Sarah Silverman
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Everybody appreciates a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane Austen
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Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
William Shakespeare
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When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.
William H. Gass
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane Austen
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My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.
Tori Spelling