When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. Helen Rowland American Writer More Helen Rowland Quotes 6
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. Clare Boothe Luce American Dramatist More Clare Boothe Luce Quotes 0
I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense. Don Nickles American Politician More Don Nickles Quotes 0
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan American Writer More Peggy Noonan Quotes 0
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. Herman Melville American Novelist More Herman Melville Quotes 0
I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man. Beth Orton English Musician More Beth Orton Quotes 0
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. Ryan Phillippe American Actor More Ryan Phillippe Quotes 0
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. Samuel Richardson English Novelist More Samuel Richardson Quotes 0
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. Titus Maccius Plautus Roman Poet More Titus Maccius Plautus Quotes 0
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. Jackson Pollock American Artist More Jackson Pollock Quotes 0
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. Sidney Poitier American Actor More Sidney Poitier Quotes 0
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. Scott Caan American Actor More Scott Caan Quotes 0
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. Clarence Darrow American Lawyer More Clarence Darrow Quotes 0
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. Dave Edmunds Welsh Musician More Dave Edmunds Quotes 0
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. George Eliot British Author More George Eliot Quotes 0
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. William Feather American Author More William Feather Quotes 0
The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. Tom T. Hall American Musician More Tom T. Hall Quotes 0
When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.' Burton Lane American Composer More Burton Lane Quotes 0
Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out. Judge Mills Lane American Celebrity More Judge Mills Lane Quotes 0
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. George MacDonald Scottish Novelist More George MacDonald Quotes 0
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive. Graham Nelson English Mathematician More Graham Nelson Quotes 0