Top 100 Compliment Quotes
#1. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
Elvis Costello
#2. It is time for us to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term "person of faith" as a compliment.
Jerry A. Coyne
#3. You're an asshole."
"And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.
Simone Elkeles
#4. An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#6. I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Carl Everett
#7. [I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
Iain M. Banks
#8. I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow.
Dane Cook
#9. Oh, he was perfect. An orgasm - just for her - and a compliment. She would bottle him and sell him and make her fortune.
Ruthie Knox
#10. A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. You may say, "I'd compliment him if he did something right." Well, he did at least one thing right. He married you!
Tony Evans
#12. Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
Val Kilmer
#13. In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#15. A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
Mark Twain
#16. Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.
Dolly Parton
#17. If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.
Yoko Ono
#18. She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
Bob Seger
#19. 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."
George Will
#20. I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.
Charlie White
#21. In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
Criss Jami
#22. Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment
it's a second opinion.
Fran Lebowitz
#24. Different things make me feel sexy. Sometimes it's just a manicure or when I buy some new underwear or just receiving a compliment from a guy on the street. But I think to feel sexy, you just need the right person next to you, who's going to complete you and make you feel even sexier.
Irina Shayk
#25. Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.
Rhonda Byrne
#26. Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
Bill Walsh
#27. 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
#28. I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.
Marcel Dzama
#29. When you really want to help someone, express your love. With kind words, touch their heart and give a sincere compliment.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba
#31. Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional - or worse, sometimes even a negative - for women. "She is very ambitious" is not a compliment in our culture.
Sheryl Sandberg
#32. 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
#34. Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
Jack Nicklaus
#35. Furo Costas. The Rager. You, my friend, are an imbecile. You could have killed me twenty times, on the Tracks. I'm surprised you're not dead.
Ro shrugs, happily. It's nothing he hasn't heard before, and nothing he doesn't see as a compliment.
Margaret Stohl
#36. When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
Max Lucado
#37. "Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."
Kanye West
#38. Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment ... Thank me.
Hannibal Buress
#39. Vin shook her head. "No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things."
OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. "Regardless," he said, "you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.
Brandon Sanderson
#40. I've been wanting to compliment you on that', I said to her, in Delsig. 'It was nicely done. Do you compose it that moment, or had you thought about it before?
Ann Leckie
#41. Always one to accept a compliment graciously, Wright.
Ashlan Thomas
#42. Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
Ann Landers
#43. When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
Marianne Moore
#44. I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane Austen
#45. The Greeks described her eyes as 'oxlike'. Believe it or not, that was a compliment. It meant she had large, soft brown eyes that you could get lost in. I guess the Greeks spent a lot of time staring at oxen.
Rick Riordan
#46. There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim
#47. I'm too busy being the bad guy." It was one of those things that get said in a marriage, something that starts out as a genuine compliment but turns into a criticism without either party noticing or caring all that much.
Sarah Dunn
#48. So when you negate someone's compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You're telling them they wasted their time. You are questioning their taste and judgment. You
Shonda Rhimes
#49. Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
William Feather
#50. Your definition of human is not the same as mine. To you, it means something ... negative. To me, it's a compliment - and by my definition - you are and he isn't
Stephenie Meyer
#51. Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.
Paris Hilton
#52. 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
#53. I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it's insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#54. Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.
Deepak Chopra
#55. Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you.
Rhonda Byrne
#57. To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#58. Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?
Rhonda Britten
#59. Wonder Woman is not faking it. Wonder Woman means it. Wonder Woman is all swagger and badassery. Compliment
Shonda Rhimes
#60. Odd is a compliment," he continued, his eyes twinkling, "whereas weird is an insult.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#61. To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
#62. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#63. In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, "When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold," and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.
Judith McNaught
#64. 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
#65. People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
Nathaniel Buzolic
#66. She isn't stupid. She's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro.
Nella Larsen
#67. Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
Bob Dylan
#68. You sacrificed yourself to save a lot of people.' Her words sounded like a compliment. Her tone sounded like she was calling me an idiot.
Rick Riordan
#69. It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
Ryan Phillippe
#70. It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.
Alice Cooper
#71. Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done,
I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
Spider Robinson
#72. You have an incredible body. He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.
Augusten Burroughs
#74. 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.
Tom T. Hall
#75. Jethro huffed a laugh and shook his head. "You know, Beau. You're a lot more like Cletus then you let on."
"Thank you." Beau grinned at me. "In lightof recent events, I'll take that as a compliment.
Penny Reid
#76. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
Wilbur Smith
#77. It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.
Drake
#78. 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
#79. Agatha - You're somewhat odd. You know that, don't you?
Felicia - I'll take that as a compliment.
Agatha - It wasn't meant as such ...
Jen Turano
#80. Quentin looked curiously around. "This is a neat room," he said.
"Yes, it is," I replied, directing my compliment toward the distant ceiling. Everyone deserves a few compliments. Even a building.
Seanan McGuire
#81. Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.
Marshall Faulk
#82. No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.
Nikki Glaser
#83. And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
Jason Statham
#84. A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.
Katie MacAlister
#85. Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
#86. For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken of as happy, it is in compliment to their promise for the future.
Aristotle.
#87. The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.
Terry Hoeppner
#88. To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
Mark Twain
#89. Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#90. A good rule to remember in complimenting people is this: people are more pleased at a compliment if you praise them for some virtue that is not glaringly obvious.
Leslie T. Giblin
#91. When in doubt, always compliment a woman's eyeliner application.
Lindsey Kelk
#92. You're unbelievable," he said in a low voice, and it wasn't a compliment. "It amazes me that there was ever a time I thought you needed toughening up."
"Would you prefer someone more ... helpless?"
Even Lucy had to admit that she had pushed him too far.
Lisa Kleypas
#93. When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Helen Rowland
#94. The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Mark Twain
#95. Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
Alan Zweibel
#96. Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
Gabrielle Zevin
#97. It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
J. Michael Straczynski
#98. Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time.
David Chiles
#99. Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers
#100. Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Harvey MacKay
