Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

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

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

When you touch me, good God.

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

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

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

You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

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 must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

A complaint is a compliment of negativity.

"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.

Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.

A woman never argues with a compliment.

He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called him a prisoner. He placed the hours on a scale with hours from former days to compare. I took a hammer and broke it all. He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes first then swept the seconds. I told him he’d missed a spot; there were some sparkling specks left. 'What are they?' he asked. 'Those are moments,' I said. 'What are they made of?' he asked. They are times, I thought, when you win a race or win a heart. They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest. When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible. When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself. Times when you are embarrassed. Times when you are hurtful. Times when you relish in a hearty meal. Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day. 'What are they made of?' he asked again. 'They are made up of times when we are fully present.' I picked up one of the specks with the tip of my finger. 'Do you remember this?' I asked. 'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.' 'Why?' I asked. 'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.

He‟d taken that old cliché “tall, dark, and handsome” and made it his little bitch.

He looked with deep attention to me as if he was drinking in my style, my charms, and my beauty.

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

Don't complain but compliment. Don't compete but empower.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

His eyes slink over me. "I forgot to tell you- you look lovely." Lovely. I want to laugh at his words. "You shouldn't have bothered with the compliment," I say, "I'm many things, and the least impressive of them is lovely." .... Lovely. What a load of bullshit.

I know who you are,” Jack whispers. “I’ve always known you.” His hands glide up my arms, from the angles of my wrists to the creases of my elbows. He presses his mouth to my left ear—I shiver from his breath. “You’re a force to be reckoned with.

I feel vaugely that you're paying me a compliment', returned Mrs. Crowley, 'but it's so elusive that I can't quite catch it.' 'The best compliments are those that flutter about your head like butterflies around a flower.' 'I much prefer to fix them down on a board with a pin through their insides and a narrow strip of paper to hold down each wing.

If someone says to you, “you’re a sight for sore eyes”—make sure it’s a compliment.

If you're ever accused of not taking things seriously, take it as a compliment. Humour is a sign of intelligence. Any objections to your facetiousness are likely an admission by the complainant that they are guilty of taking things way too seriously. The flaw lies with them.