This barren verbiage current among men.
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. [ Tennyson ]

Attention is a tacit and continual compliment. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Compliment is the high-road to the heart of woman. [ Champcenest ]

Ceremonious friends are so, as far as a compliment will go. [ Proverb ]

A good pinch and a rap with a stick is a clown's compliment. [ Proverb ]

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. [ Chalmers ]

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. [ Prince de Ligne ]

To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. [ Burns ]

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence - as a compliment from God. [ Beecher ]

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say: but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. [ Voltaire ]

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism, but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. [ Disraeli ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]