Compliment Quotes

687 Compliment quotes by 528 unique authors

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight… — Kate Winslet
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. — Thomas Wolfe
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This… — Augusten Burroughs
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Oscar Wilde
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient… — C.S. Lewis
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us… — John le Carre
Love, love, love â€“ all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such… — Eduardo Galeano
Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the… — Sarah Vowell
I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about… — David Levithan
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a… — Bill Maher
You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. — Henry David Thoreau
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. — Jane Austen
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. — Jane Austen

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