Best 251 quotes in «compliment quotes» category

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 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 very inexpensive to give 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 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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

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

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My senses tell me hubba.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

"Percy, you're a brave guy," She said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.