Quotes about Compliments

C.C. Baxter: Miss Kubelik, one doesn't get to be a second administrative assistant around here unless he's a pretty good judge of character, and as far as I'm concerned you're tops. I mean, decency-wise and otherwise-wise.

- Jack Lemmon (as C.C. Baxter) in The Apartment (1960)

Captain Renault: [to Ilsa] I was informed that you were the most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca. That was a gross understatement.
Ilsa: [genuinely pleased] You're very kind.

- Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund) in Casablanca (1942)

Rick: I congratulate you.
Victor Laszlo: What for?
Rick: Your work.
Victor Laszlo: I try.
Rick: We all "try"; You succeed!

- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

Gaston Lachaille: [singing] Oh Gigi! While you were trembling on the brink was I out yonder somewhere blinking at a star? / Oh Gigi! Have I been standing up too close or back too far? / When did your sparkle turn to fire, / And your warmth become desire? / Oh what miracle has made you the way you are? Gigi! Gigi! Gigi! Oh no! I was mad not to have seen the change in you! Oh, Gigi!

- Louis Jourdan (as Gaston Lachaille) in Gigi (1958)

Marty Pilletti: See, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.

- Ernest Borgnine (as Marty Piletti) in Marty (1955)

Professor Henry Higgins: You might marry, you know. You see, Eliza, all men are not confirmed old bachelors like myself and the Colonel. Most men are the marrying sort, poor devils. And you're not bad-looking; you're really quite a pleasure to look at sometimes. Not now, of course, when you've been crying, you look like the very devil; but when you're all right, and quite yourself, you're what I would call... attractive.

- Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Squire Allworthy: [to Tom, when not expected to recover from a carriage accident] I am convinced, my boy, that you have much goodness, generosity and honor in your nature. If you will add prudence and religion to those, you must be happy.

- Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones (1963)

Squire Western: [commenting on Sophie's playing the harpsichord] You play like an angel.

- Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones (1963)

Shane: You were watchin' me down it for quite a spell, weren't you?
Joey: Yes I was.
Shane: You know, I... I like a man who watches things go on around. It means he'll make his mark someday.

- Alan Ladd (as Shane) in Shane (1953)

Eve Kendall: I tipped the steward five dollars to seat you here if you should come in.
Roger Thornhill: Is that a proposition?
Eve Kendall: I never discuss love on an empty stomach.
Roger Thornhill: You've already eaten!
Eve Kendall: But you haven't.

- Eva Marie Saint (as Eve Kendall) in North by Northwest (1959)