Compliments Quotes

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment.

It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me;

I always feel that they have not said enough.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters.

It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it.

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

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them.

If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment.

I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me--I always feel that they have not said enough.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out.

It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative.

The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No.

1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

The stage is the best experience in the world.

It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.