Novelist Quotes and aphorisms about compliment Henry Fielding H. P. Lovecraft ,, It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, bu... Herman Melville George MacDonald Adam Ross ,, The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gar... Kristan Higgins Henry Fielding