Top 100 Compliments You Quotes
#1. Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
Carolina Herrera
#2. If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.
Yoko Ono
#3. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Mary Schmich
#5. If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism.
Cornelius Lindsey
#6. I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart.
Aly Michalka
#7. You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller
#8. Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
Gary Krist
#9. I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
LeRoy Neiman
#10. 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
#11. One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.
Marlon Wayans
#12. Real self-worth comes from mastery, from getting good at something. It doesn't matter what. Then you don't have to worry about empty compliments. You don't worry about what other people think. You have self-respect.
Albert Borris
#13. 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
#14. When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.
Joel Osteen
#15. Compliments you get free, the complaints you've to earn it.
Sarvesh Jain
#16. I do karate because it makes the rest of life easy. That is to say, karate training, if done properly, is tough: it's hard work, with little reward because your sensei never compliments you.
Scott Langley
#17. I must say, all these compliments you keep sending my way are bound to go to my head soon. Why, I don't recall the last time I was deemed peculiar and suspicious all in the same day.
Jen Turano
#18. When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.
Frederick Lenz
#19. I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
Bill Dickey
#20. It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints.
Sarvesh Jain
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. You know. The looks. The verbal jousting. The smiles. The insults that are really compliments.
Ann Ormsby
#24. It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.
Drake
#25. Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.
Gregory J. P. Godek
#27. Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Harvey MacKay
#28. Stop teasing you two," Suzy jumped in, "not all of Kathy's ideas are wacky."
"Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
E.A. Bucchianeri
#29. Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
Alice Clayton
#30. There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.
Diablo Cody
#31. It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.
Maria Bamford
#32. You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
Annie Barrows
#33. I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me."
Dion DiMucci
#34. Well, I don't have much competition here."
"You don't have much competition anywhere.
Suzanne Collins
#35. In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
David Amram
#36. 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
#37. I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.
Allison Williams
#38. I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#39. Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I'd rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the most incredible green eyes I've ever seen. Sophie, will you go to the dance with me?
Leslea Wahl
#40. 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.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
#41. Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.
Anna Godbersen
#42. You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.
Nikki Rowe
#43. No wonder you're so successful in your business. You're a scoundrel." "Why thank you, sweetheart. That's so nice of you to say." "Only you would take being called a scoundrel and a tempting devil as compliments." "Coming from you, they're the best compliments I've ever received.
Marie Force
#44. Spare me your empty little compliments, girl ... and you ser's. I am no knight. I spit on them and their vows.
George R R Martin
#45. One of the lines in Finn's code is that you're not to say anything about Finn being attractive to the opposite sex. I'm not sure which exact statue governs this, but it's closely related to the one that won't let you thank him.
Something about compliments and Finn don't work.
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
Ethan Hawke
#47. But you're smarter than even he thinks he is." She paused, thought that through. "If you get me".
"Aren't we full of compliments tonight? I'll have to bang you against the wall more often.
J.D. Robb
#49. Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.
Lysa TerKeurst
#50. 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
#52. People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When
Niels Saunders
#53. That's not fair, throwing out compliments like that. Do you know how dangerous those things can be?
Sara Raasch
#54. For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
H. Rider Haggard
#55. Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ...
Jesse Ventura
#56. You look wonderful", Jason said.
"No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie."
"Then by all means take it off.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. Mrs. Grey
I have received three compliments on my new haircut. Compliments from my staff
are new. It must be the ridiculous smile I'm wearing whenever I think about last night. You are indeed a wonderful, talented, beautiful woman.
And all mine.
E.L. James
#58. You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Dale Carnegie
#60. I bet the sleazeball buttered you up with loads of compliments too?'
Cleo gave a grim nod. 'Yes, he did. He said my trowel was awesome.
Helen Moss
#61. Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."
Rita Rudner
#62. Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.
Julie Garwood
#63. Rose-"Then you'll need to buy me some barf bags."
Conner-"do you always vomit on guys you like or just me?"
Rose-" the more you fish for compliments the more I want to puke on you".
Conner- "So it is just me then ".
Becca Ritchie
#64. Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
Jane Austen
#65. Layla tried to maintain eye contact, but couldn't. "You're not used to compliments," he concluded. "No," she confessed, looking back up. "Not ones like that." "That's too bad," he scowled, but then he raised his eyebrows. "We'll have to change that.
B.C. Burgess
#66. When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way.
Greg Maddux
#67. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Criss Jami
#68. You're real pretty. Got good strong thighs. And you've got oral skills most men would kill for." Now everyone turned and looked at Sissy Mae. "That's lovely, Sissy," Marty sighed out. "I was only complimenting her." "Compliments like that create hookers.
Anonymous
#69. 'Give me a break. You're smart; you're capable. You even have a disturbing streak of honesty, which you occasionally acknowledge. And I suppose some people wouldn't mind looking at you.'
Tara Lain
#70. I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?
Jill Scott
#71. You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
Dean Wareham
#72. There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.
Mark Wahlberg
#73. I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'
Jo Koy
#74. There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#75. Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ...
Lemony Snicket
#76. They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
Mark Twain
#77. I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
#78. We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.
Charlotte Rampling
#79. Thank you - for all your compliments about the general badassery of my family's DNA.
Katie Ashley
#80. 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
#81. I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.
Timothy F. Cahill
#82. 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
#83. Do you think he's, like, embarrassed of me?"
Ben laughed. "What? No," he said.
"Technically," I added, "you should be embarrassed of him."
She rolled her eyes, smiling. A girl accustomed to compliments.
John Green
#84. A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard
#85. Kiddo, I rarely get compliments. So I just decide to compliment myself instead. You should try it sometime.
Karina Halle
#86. You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.
Rachel E. Carter
#87. Do not be grateful for what I did, for you.
I just save a Sick Sheep.
I am glad, I am able to.
Religion of Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
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Petra Hermans
#88. You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
#89. Because you, my darling, are like poison ivy to me. Even though I know that it will only make things worse, I can't help but scratch."
"Oh, the compliments." She smiled sadly. "You are as debonair as always.
J.R. Ward
#90. There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.
Rose Byrne
#91. There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.
William Matthews
#92. Receive compliments gracefully instead of countering with a disclaimer such as, "Oh, this ratty old thing?" Try this instead: "Thank you." Period. Take
Jen Sincero
#93. One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."
Scott Raab
#94. Gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly ...
Sappho
#95. Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.
Michael Dolan
#96. I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's been really helpful. I mean, you get thousands of compliments, and then one person will say something negative - and that's all you'll remember, that one person.
Carmen Electra
#98. If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
#99. When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair.
Anton Chekhov
#100. Compliments of the season to you, and may the acid rain fall on your joint and anointed heads.
Julian Barnes
