Compliment Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane Austen
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each others dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Mark Twain
Marge, you’re as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
Homer Simpson
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
Mark Twain
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond Chandler
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock
But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like agen?
Walter Scott
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God was just showing off when he created you.
Movie: Keeping the Faith
It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.
J. M. Barrie
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
William Shakespeare
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.
Edward Thomas
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
For she was beautiful – her beauty made
The bright world dim, and everything beside
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Dale Carnegie
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
Adlai Stevenson
She isn’t a bad bit of goods, the Queen! I wish all the fleas in my bed were as good.
Cervantes
If you weren’t the best light comedian in the country, all you’d be fit for would be the selling of cars in Great Portland Street.
Noël Coward
Here’s looking at you, kid.
Humphrey Bogart
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare
I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you?
Cole Porter
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven.
Izaak Walton
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