Compliment may also refer to:
- Compliment, a formalised respectful action paid to a superior, such as saluting an officer in the armed forces
- Compliment, a typeface by Ludwig & Mayer
- Backhanded compliment, an insult disguised as a compliment
Compliments may refer to:
- Compliments (album), an album by Jerry Garcia
- "Compliments" (Band of Horses song)
- "Compliments" (Bloc Party song)
- Compliments slip, a small acknowledgement note, less formal than a letter
Famous quotes containing the word compliment:
“I see advertisements for active young men, as if activity were the whole of a young man’s capital. Yet I have been surprised when one has with confidence proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise of his, as if I had absolutely nothing to do, my life having been a complete failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment this to pay me!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When I censured a gentleman of my acquaintance for marrying a second time, as it shewed a disregard of his first wife, he said, “Not at all, Sir. On the contrary, were he not to marry again, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)