Quotes
Quotes about Compliment
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 sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.
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.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
