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Compliments: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. J. C. and A. W.HARE-Guesses at Truth. What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 122.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 109.

A woman * * * always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.— ABEL STEVENS — Life of Madame de Staël. Ch. III.

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.— TENNYSON — The Princess. Pt. II. L. 40.