Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

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.

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things." OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

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.

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

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

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.

When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!

When you touch me, good God.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.