To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
Richard Rorty

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.
Judge Mills Lane

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Helen Rowland

When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
Burton Lane

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo

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