Compliment famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- A. A. Gill -
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.
-- Alan Garner -
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
-- Albert Brooks -
I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
-- Alice James -
I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.
-- Ally Carter -
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
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.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
-- Bob Dylan -
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
-- Bob Seger -
The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
-- Burton Cummings -
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
-- Calista Flockhart -
I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
-- Carl Everett -
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
-- Carlisle Floyd -
If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.
-- Catherine Ponder -
The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them.
-- Claudia Gray -
I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.
-- Clint Black -
When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.
-- Darrell Issa -
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.
-- Dave Edmunds -
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
-- David Duchovny -
You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone
-- Dean Wareham -
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.
-- Desmond Morris -
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
-- Elvis Costello -
There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
-- Eydie Gorme -
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.
-- Gabrielle Union -
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
-- Gelett Burgess -
She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.
-- Gillian Flynn -
Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me
-- Harry Dean Stanton -
Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.
-- Ilie Nastase -
The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.
-- Irving Chernev -
Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.
-- Isla Fisher -
You are so . . . odd." "I shall take that as a compliment." -Thor to No'One
-- J.R. Ward -
I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment
-- Jadakiss -
The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.
-- James L. Barksdale -
And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
-- Jason Statham -
It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.
-- Jeff Abbott -
I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.
-- Jethro Tull -
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!
-- Jillian Michaels -
I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'
-- Jo Koy -
I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.
-- Joe Satriani -
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
-- John Sterling -
Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.
-- John Stride -
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.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
-- Katharine Tynan -
I know you pretty well." "Better than anyone I think." I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.
-- Kenneth Oppel -
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
-- Kin Hubbard -
Elizabeth, With my compliments. You will never get your claws into another one of mine. Rot in hell, Nïx clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, "He gave you his heart. That's so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.
-- Kresley Cole -
The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
-- Lena Dunham -
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.
-- Marisa Miller -
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
-- Mark Twain -
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
-- Mark Twain -
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.
-- Marshall Goldsmith -
You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.
-- Marty Feldman -
Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.
-- Mary Jane Ward -
People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.
-- Michael Angarano -
Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.
-- Michael Dolan -
Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
-- Michael Patrick King -
Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
-- Michael Phelps -
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
-- Minna Antrim -
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.
-- Neil Strauss -
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.
-- Paolo Maldini -
It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?
-- Patricia Highsmith -
I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.
-- Patrick deWitt -
I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong
-- Paul Scholes -
I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.
-- Paul Scholes -
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.
-- Peter Wolf -
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
-- Phyllis Diller -
The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.
-- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
-- Rachel Weisz -
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
-- Richard Rorty -
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
-- Robert Breault -
Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.
-- Robert Wagner -
The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.
-- Ryan Guzman -
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
-- Scott Caan -
When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.
-- Scott McNealy
