Compliment Quotes

Compliment Quote of the day

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

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

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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

Crazy is a compliment.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.

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

When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

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

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

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

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

"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.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

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

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.

To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.

I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.

I don't give out compliments easily.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me.

I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

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.

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

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

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

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.'

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

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

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

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

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.