compliment quotes

As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll give 'Long life to youtill then!'

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Pooh-Bah's solo, The Mikado, act1.

Itake it as a compliment whenanagent ofthelargest and most heinous bully of the century, the Soviet Union, accuses me of being a bully.

- Alexander Meigs,Jr Haig
  On how he was seen as US Secretary of State by former Soviet  Ambassador  Anatoly Dobrynin. In the Washington Post, 27 Oct.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

- George MacDonald
The Marquis of Lossie (published1906).