Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

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

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.

Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

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

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?

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

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

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

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

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

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 compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

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 get tired of hearing compliments.

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.

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

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

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

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

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