“Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.”

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.”

“It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?”

“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.”

“It’s hard for people to know themselves. It’s hard to know how you’re charming. When you’re young, even when people compliment you, it’s difficult to accept that.”

“Compliment but do not covet.”

“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”

“… who cares for a general compliment more than a general lover.”

“you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.”