Compliments Quote by J. Jefferson Farjeon

“I was just about to say that I would have to ask the lieutenant, but then I realized that was me. “Yes,”

— Leena Lehtolainen

“Ah … politics, Sergeant. When the top brass hand you a turd, you polish it and say, “my, what a lovely jobbie!” That way…

— Stuart MacBride

“You're too clever to be a soldier." Then she shook her head. "Don't say it. I know. We need our soldiers to be clever.…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Do you think that's a good idea, sir?' 'Yes, sergeant, I do. It was one of mine.”

— Terry Pratchett

You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

— John Green

“Why do I have the feeling that every time you say ‘with all due respect,’ you don’t really mean it?” I hesitate for a…

— Marko Kloos

“The colonel still stared at my friend like a man in a trance. "You cunning, cunning fiend!" was all that he could say.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Even if you are a pompous ass with no respect for authority, you're worth fifty men, and I mean to see you in my…

— Brian McClellan

“He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.”

— Jane Austen

“Oh! not handsome—not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now. One does…

— Jane Austen