Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not a bad egg, you know? Not a bad egg is a pretty high compliment in American politics, given the toxic atmosphere in which we currently dwell.

How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

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

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is passionate is a huge compliment. For me it's like, if a person is ambitious enough, they run in a tunnel that doesn't end...And I learn things about myself all the time.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

I know you pretty well." "Better than anyone I think." I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!

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.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

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

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

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

I think I would have liked to have been a twin... Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

I told my sons to remember to always thank people for compliments.

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.