Compliment Someone Quotes

#1. The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

Jeffrey Fry

#2. If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.

Leonard Lauder

#3. When you're feeling down ...
Smile
Stand tall, shoulder back
Compliment someone
Help someone in a big or small way
Listen to music
Clean your space
Plan your day
Do what your brain tells you can't or shouldn't
Pray (or meditate) with a focus on gratitude
Breathe

Charles F. Glassman

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

H.R. Giger

#5. To be a great success detect the problem, find the solutions, never complain, but never forget to compliment someone.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

Michio Kaku

#7. Realized it wasn't just someone completing him, it was the added compliment of having her near.

Rachel Van Dyken

#8. The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.

John Sexton

#9. To help someone, don't criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ken Blanchard

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#15. One of the rarest and most beautiful things in this world is to meet someone who has the ability to intoxicate you. Every moment with her was exhilarating, and every moment without her was spent captivated by thoughts about her. She was like the finest of wines. And I was getting drunk.

Richie Singh

#16. The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

Tim Daly

#17. I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you're modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you're a jerk.

Jesse Andrews

#18. I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

Richard Dawkins

#19. I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Errol Morris

#20. I know a fantastic kiss when I share one with someone."
My insides went mushy at the compliment. I was glad he'd felt the zinging between us, too. No! I wasn't. Damn it. I scowled. "It was pleasant enough."
Cooper threw his head back in laughter. "Right. You keep telling yourself that, Doc

Samantha Young

#21. The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul

Deepak Chopra

#22. Love God first, and your husband second. Remember to compliment him, because if you don't, someone else will. And always give a hundred percent. If you both do that, you'll be covered on the days when someone slips a little.

Karen Kingsbury

#23. Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

Raheel Farooq

#24. Trust at the most basic level is nothing other than someone having faith in us, and the belief that we will do the right thing. Is that not a compliment of the highest order?

Sherri Lynea Gerek

#25. There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

Chris Botti

#26. I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.

I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.

Rachel E. Carter

#27. Talking about someone in the third person is rude." Cam tells her coolly.
"Really?" Says Connor. "When you're a hundred people, wouldn't third person be a compliment?

Neal Shusterman

#28. As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

Matt LeBlanc

#29. You were good."

It was a very small compliment, but it came from someone who mattered, about something that mattered. I felt a smile spread across my face. "Really?

Leila Sales

#30. When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

Stana Katic

#31. I'm a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I've been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they're writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it's an interesting character at least.

Martin Starr

#32. The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to?

Miya Yamanouchi

#33. You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment.

David Sedaris

#34. As the graduates were called to the stage to collect their diplomas, I shook every hand. Many stopped to give me a hug. One young woman even told me I was "the baddest bitch" (which, having checked with someone later, actually did turn out to be a compliment).

Sheryl Sandberg

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

Fran Lebowitz

#36. When you really want to help someone, express your love. With kind words, touch their heart and give a sincere compliment.

Debasish Mridha

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#40. 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 are insulting them. If someone wants to compliment you, let them.

Shonda Rhimes

#41. A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

Marvin J. Ashton

#42. 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

#43. Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

Michael Graves

#44. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

Alanis Morissette

#45. If someone takes it upon themself to compliment you, don't explain to them why the compliment is misplaced or undeserving, say "thank you" and smile; that was the purpose.

Travis Culliton

#46. When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life.

Amy Arbus

#47. Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.

John Stride

#48. Why is it so embarrassing to admit you like someone? It should be a compliment to them, and even if they don't like you back, they should at least commend you on your refined taste.

Dalya Moon

#49. To best influence someone's behavior, be a personal example. - Be the one who points out the bright side and serves compliments rather than complaints.

Russell Kyle

#50. Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.

Nimrat Kaur

#51. As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.

L'Wren Scott

#52. Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person's plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else's miracle.

Mark Batterson

#53. When someone acknowledges you for something that they think about you, it's a huge compliment.

Michelle Yeoh

#54. When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

John Henry Newman

#55. Mum said that I shouldn't be moved to do anything by someone with sweet words, but Tommy Falk doesn't seem to be trying to persuade me of anything, so I let his compliment slip down nice and easy. It's quite agreeable and I'd be happy enough with another.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Bill Maher

#57. Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. No matter.

Gillian Flynn

#58. Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

Wilmer Valderrama

#59. To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

Teresa Monachino

#60. I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

Christian Louboutin

#61. Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.

Lucy Punch