Sentence examples for Quite a compliment from inspiring English sources

Quite a compliment.

Quite a compliment, when the papers are full of fevered rumours about exactly which A-list actor will be replacing Lane.

It was quite a compliment.

We took that as quite a compliment".

"Thank you, that's quite a compliment".

"It's quite a compliment," she smiles.

This isn't quite a backhanded compliment but he also meant to put the book in its place.

I was expecting some obscure denim tip off but, no, Graham got a few pairs of Topshop jeans (and some of their chinos which she says earned quite a few compliments).

For a literary writer like Straub, this doesn't quite sound like a compliment.

(That's not quite as much of a compliment as it sounds; Hitchcock once said that actors should be treated like cattle).

"Your sentences are so long," said a friend who teaches English at a local college, and I could tell she didn't quite mean it as a compliment.