Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.

My senses tell me hubba.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

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

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

"Percy, you're a brave guy," She said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?

Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired.

She meant it as a compliment.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

She's got a smile that heals me.

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing.

The biggest compliment? I would say, "You helped me." I think in terms of life, not just with acting. But certainly with storytelling, being able to hold up a mirror and allow someone to relate to a story and see something in themselves to the extent that you're in service to another human being - I don't know why else we're here. To know that I helped someone would be the biggest compliment I could ever receive.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.