Famous quotes containing the word compliments:
“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 (1689–1761)
“We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)