Quotes about Compliments

Addison DeWitt: You could sleep now, couldn't you?
Eve Harrington: Why not?
Addison DeWitt: The mark of a true killer: Sleep tight, rest easy, and come out fighting.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

Father Chuck O'Malley: Hail, Alma Mater, thy time-honored halls shall echo with our praise till we die; and round our hearts are the ivy-covered walls of East St. Louis High.

- Bing Crosby (as Father Chuck O'Malley) in Going My Way (1944)

Theo Weston: Anybody can be an engineer, but teaching this mob is... well, l wish l had your gift.

- Geoffrey Bayldon (as Theo Weston) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Max: The Von Trapp Family Singers. Here are your names: Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Brigitta, Kurt, Marta and Gretl.
Gretl: Why am I always last?
Max: Because you are the most important.

- Richard Haydn (as Max Detweiler) in The Sound of Music (1965)