Compliment Quotes and Sayings

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
Mignon McLaughlin

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller

Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Alexander Pope

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky

When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.
Helen Rowland

Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Ludovico Ariosto

If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
Voltaire

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

Twas never merry world
Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me –I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
William Hazlitt

That guy has muscles in places most people don’t have places.
Bucky Waters

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn’t, yet these same poems make me gay.
Marcus Aurelius

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim

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 it does stand out [my clothing], then I guess it’s a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
Shania Twain

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher

A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
Hartley Coleridge

My doctor said to me afterwards, ‘When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.’ I never had a compliment that pleased me more.
Bertrand Russell