A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.
Cat Deeley

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

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
Calista Flockhart

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
Jason Statham

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.
Robert Wagner

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Clarence Clemons

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
Matt LeBlanc

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan

Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln

For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.
Eva Herzigova

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Scott Caan

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

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

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

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
Joseph Epstein

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Plautus