Compliment Quotes

#1. Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.

Donald Laird

#2. I like the way you fight."
Was that a compliment?
"It's very efficient. Who taught you?"
"Your grandmother."...
"That seems unlikely. My grandmother preferred sewing to fighting.

Jodi Meadows

#3. 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."

Buck Rodgers

#4. I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

Beth Orton

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

Zig Ziglar

#6. When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Alexander Pope

#7. Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

Julie Klausner

#8. To yield readily
easily
to the persuasion of a friend is no merit ... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Jane Austen

#9. The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#10. After years of self deprecating behavior, I've never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there's nothing special about me.

Brynna Gabrielson

#11. Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?" I enquired.
"Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like.

Jane Cousins

#12. Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment.
"I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will - "
"Die?" Carter suggested.

Rick Riordan

#13. The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

Norm MacDonald

#14. 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

#15. A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Ken Blanchard

#16. I like having the two sports in my life. It is nice to have a change. They are both intense sports, but the balance I have is working for me at the moment and I find they compliment one another.

Liz Halliday

#17. When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Mark Twain

#18. Crazy is a compliment.

Linda Rottenberg

#19. If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

Chris Martin

#20. A couple of kind words
can not only make a person's day,
but earn you a friend and supporter for life.
For the rest of the week,
whenever you see someone
you want to judge negatively,
pay them a compliment instead.
See what happens.

Neil Strauss

#21. Maybe 'beautiful' isn't the proper word. It's too common, and the way you look is . . . rare. You deserve a rare compliment. One sincerely meant, and crafted just for you. So there will be no doubt.

Tessa Dare

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

Amy Pascal

#23. I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

Jessica Simpson

#24. A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

#25. Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source.

Charles Dickens

#26. 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.

Marvin J. Ashton

#27. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

Pat Summitt

#28. The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

Hillary Scott

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

Claudia Gray

#30. There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform our midnight frolics as the inmates burn the midnight oil.

Whipplesnaith

#31. Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.

John Patrick Hickey

#32. It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written)
for me, it's never quick.

Sarah Dessen

#33. If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Michael Strahan

#34. Nakamura considered this. "I hesitate to agree, but that was probably a good idea."

"A compliment! My goodness, let me mark the day on my calendar!"

"That's why I hesitated to agree," Nakamura said with a note of weariness.

Kevin Sylvester

#35. Compliment but do not covet.

Christopher Moore

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

Mark Twain

#37. To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

Michael Angarano

#38. I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Roy Ayers

#39. Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

Lada Ray

#40. 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.

Clarence Darrow

#41. Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Scott Caan

#42. The girl with the shaved head has a scar tattooed on her scalp. It looks like a long, sutured gash. You tell her it is very realistic. She takes this as a compliment and thanks you. You meant as opposed to romantic. "I could use one of those right over my heart," you say.

Jay McInerney

#43. I'll assume that was a compliment." "It wasn't. It definitely wasn't." "Nevertheless, that is what I'll tell myself." "Fine.

L.G. Estrella

#44. 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.

Daniel Radcliffe

#45. Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

Kristan Higgins

#46. It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

Jeaniene Frost

#47. The elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type.

Elena Ferrante

#48. Destiny leaves no soul bereft of it's compliment. - Roald le Beau

Emma Holly

#49. When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#50. Kiddo, I rarely get compliments. So I just decide to compliment myself instead. You should try it sometime.

Karina Halle

#51. Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare

#52. One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

Patrick Dempsey

#53. It was one thing to be called pretty; it was a true compliment to be called smart.

Michael Callahan

#54. My (paradoxically) Christian name was bestowed in compliment to a godfather, sir. I am no Jew. I have already enough to know the curse of having more.

Bernard Capes

#55. When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment.

Debasish Mridha

#56. As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I've been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.

Genelia D'Souza

#57. The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

Jeremy Piven

#58. I bet you were a Boy Scout."
"You are incomprehensible."
"It's just a compliment.

Karen Traviss

#59. Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

Shonda Rhimes

#60. I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.

Tony Blair

#61. And he raised his glass to her. It could have been a compliment. Or the most sarcastic gesture anyone had ever made to her.

Lisa Kleypas

#62. 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

#63. 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.

Cecily Strong

#64. It's always nice to receive a compliment.

Morrissey

#65. I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment.

Brandon Boyd

#66. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilkie Collins

#67. People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

Linda Cardellini

#68. What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

Irving Stone

#69. 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

#70. When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

James Garner

#71. Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#72. I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.

Margaret Atwood

#73. You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

Mark Twain

#74. You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

Yoko Ono

#75. 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

#76. You're unbelievable."
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment!"
"I know you didn't mean it as one, Juliet, but when you think about it, what could be more glorious than to be too much, too out of the ordinary, to be believed?

Louisa Edwards

#77. There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

Alistair Begg

#78. You have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.

Diego Rivera

#79. The word slut is the highest compliment I can give. It means you are a person who owns her sexuality and is unafraid to experiment and open her mind and body to new experiences.

Tiffany Reisz

#80. Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

Suzanne Enoch

#81. One of my favorite facts about Jason [Benjamin] is that he collects shirts from tattoo parlors. He has a bunch of tattoo parlor T-shirts, but no tattoos. And then he wears, like, vans and jeans. My boyfriend said he looks like a modern Bruce Springsteen, which is a pretty high compliment.

Lena Dunham

#82. Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Mark Twain

#83. Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.

Robert Denning

#84. 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.

Albert Belle

#85. Her deep sigh was the best compliment he'd ever been paid.

J.R. Ward

#86. 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.

Mark Twain

#87. 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

Bailey Chase

#88. The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Steven Pressfield

#89. Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Peggy Noonan

#90. Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

#91. They smiled too much, were quick to compliment and support, but behind the stretched lips and soft words was a judgment. No one was ever good enough - at least not until they were dead. The dead were exemplary.

Michael J. Sullivan

#92. The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

Erdem Moralioglu

#93. I am sorry I cannot think of a compliment to pay you-without lying, that is.

George MacDonald

#94. So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.

Sean Booth

#95. Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Joyce Meyer

#96. The media has been nice to me so far, but if I get compared to Channing one more time ... I'm taking it as a compliment, but it is crazy how many times people have compared me to him. I don't know if 'Magic Mike' is in my future, but we'll see.

Ryan Guzman

#97. The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.

John McEnroe

#98. I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

Jessica Simpson

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

David Duchovny

#100. It's a compliment. Say thank you. I rather like the connotations to the blow jobs you give. It's like you enjoy it as much as me.

Jettie Woodruff