Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

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

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 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'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 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 never get tired of hearing compliments.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

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.

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

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

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

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

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in this guise." "Well,you could put on a pair of shorts,at least.Your not decent." "I'm not sure they'd go with the wings..." The demon frowend,and blinked."Hold on,enough of this." "Lenderhosen would. They'd compliment the leather.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

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

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

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

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

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

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

My senses tell me hubba.