Compliment Quotes

Everybody likes a compliment.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

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.

The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

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

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

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.

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.

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

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

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

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

You got amphetamine eyes.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

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

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles 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!

Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!

Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

Dolly is a legend. Jessica is so beautiful. I take it as a big compliment when people put me beside them. About being compared to Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson on the Idol red carpet.

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

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

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?'

Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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.