Backhanded Compliment Aficionado Gifts

'I found it to be the kind of book that once you put it down you never want to pick it up again.'

"You look so beautiful, glistening in the moonlight."

"Estella, you have the two most beautiful eyes in the world."

Museum of Mediocre Art.

"I don't know art, but I know what I like."

'I'm so pleased! She used to have this terrible phobia about men with beards.'

"May I say, sir, the staff and I just knew you'd see through that Beaujolais."

'Hey! When did you learn cursive?'

'That dress certainly matches your eyes.'

Bobby

'Keep an eye on young Yomp, he's excellent at damning others with faint praise.'

Edward Lear

Climbing Beard

"Give it to me straight, Doc – my mother’s driving you nuts, right?"

"Oh, we have a special hell for triathletes. It's just like regular life, except you can't talk about your triathlons."

Man flattered into buying by a frenchwoman

"I was I had a house like yours so I could do something nice with it."

'OK, I'll admit it. You're a genius at parallel parking.'

"I'd remind you not to fly too close to the sun, but no one's ever accused you of aiming too high, have they?"

Lady flattering an amateur man of the arts

"Hey, here's someone who looks just like a young you!"

'Do you get your good looks from your mother or your father?'

Sage and Onion

Charles Gounod - 17th June 1818

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

"It's ridiculous. No one's going to vote for a man without a beard!"

"From the gentleman at the bar."

Kissing Booth

You're a Hell of a Squirrel but You're Still a Squirrel

"I'm awarding a million bucks for any school, park or high-IQ child named after me."

Complimentary beverages.

'That skirt of yours is so tight I can hardly breath.'

Lady tipping cab driver

"C'mon babe, 'thick' is a compliment!"