Compliment Quotes

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. (Victor Hugo)
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. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
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. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. View quote
Henry Fielding
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. View quote
George MacDonald
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. View quote
George Eliot
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last. View quote
Helen Rowland
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. (Peggy Noonan)
I can live for two months on a good compliment. View quote
Mark Twain
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. View quote
Calista Flockhart
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down. View quote
Ethel Waters
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. View quote
Washington Irving
I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made. View quote
Matt Dillon
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. View quote
Ryan Phillippe
You are better at small talk than I am. That is not always a compliment. View quote
John Scalzi
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. View quote
Joyce Brothers
The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca. (Irving Chernev)
To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment. View quote
Alice Cooper
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. View quote
Jane Austen
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton