Compliment Quotes

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

Everybody likes compliment.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

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 take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

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

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

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.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

I could live a week on one good compliment.

She's got a smile that heals me.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.

I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

You can't eat compliments.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

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.

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.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

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

I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.

He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.