Authors:

Compliment Quotes - Page 5

My senses tell me hubba.

Song: Onomatopoeia, Album: Hermit of Mink Hollow, 1978

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.130, Univ of Wisconsin Press

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.94, Univ of California Press

Talk about celestial bodies.

Song: That Girl Could Sing, Album: Hold Out, 1980

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

She meant it as a compliment.

"Fictional character: Mortimer Duke". "Trading Places", 1983.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Charge”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

Song: What's That You're Doing?, Album: Tug of War