Compliment Quotes and Sayings

A compliment is verbal sunshine.
Robert Orben

His worst is better than any other person’s best.
William Hazlitt

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

His vocal cords were kissed by God.
Harold Schoenberg

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
Kin Hubbard

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
Kin Hubbard

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that a man is above the average.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.
John Addington Symonds

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
Rupert Brooke

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Washington Irving

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald

Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard

‘A was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
Oscar Wilde

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Lord Chesterfield

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self respect.
Mark Twain

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

She is Venus when she smiles;
But she’s Juno when she walks,
And Minerva when she talks.
Ben Jonson

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin P. Whipple

The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!
William Wordsworth

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone.
Arab Proverb

He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
William Hazlitt

When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain

I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.
Oscar Wilde

Roses are flowering in Picardy,
But there’s never a rose like you.
Frederic Edward Weatherly

What flatterers say, try to make true.
German Proverb