Compliment Quotes

687 quotes by 528 authors

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with… — Elmore Leonard
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me.… — Oscar Wilde
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read… — Mark Twain
Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Bewareâ€”Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But… — Jerry Spinelli
You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You canâ€™t walk around letting people think youâ€™re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, itâ€™s fun to call people… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Samuel Johnson
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasnâ€™t a compliment. â€œI will rend your limbs from their sockets!â€ he shouted. â€œI… — Rick Riordan
Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but… — Sarah Rees Brennan
She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the… — P. C. Cast
Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things." OreSeur watched her… — Brandon Sanderson
A geek is like a dork. Someone whoâ€™s on the fringe, who you wouldnâ€™t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird… — Susane Colasanti
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my childrenâ€™s letters â€”… — Maurice Sendak
She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt… — Portia de Rossi
See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect… — Ned Vizzini
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an… — Richard Dawkins
There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man… — Alistair Begg
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest,… — Wilkie Collins
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased. — Jane Austen
Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in… — Jonathan Stroud

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