We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with

Insults from imbeciles are compliments.

It's one of the greatest compliments you can get when the guy who's taking the bullets behind you says you did a great job. That makes you want to block and protect that much harder.

They're going to do something that compliments the neighborhood. It's going to make everyone happy. They're going to take all those things into account.