Great Compliment Quotes

#1. And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Jason Statham

#2. Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

Marshall Faulk

#3. It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#4. The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

Vanessa Mae

#5. Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

Kate Bush

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

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.

Cybill Shepherd

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Roy Ayers

#11. 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

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

Margaret Atwood

#13. I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.

Peter Hook

#14. I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Julian Schnabel

#15. At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates' wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be taken to her lodgings so that she could eat them later.

Alison Weir

#16. Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'

Edward Albee

#17. I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

Mandy Moore

#18. Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#19. 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

#20. My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Joni Mitchell

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#24. Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

Edsger Dijkstra

#25. I love how men like my books just as much as women do. It's a great compliment; one I did not expect.

A.S. Wilshire

#26. Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

Dewey Redman

#27. A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

Glenn Hughes

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Lisa Leslie

#31. You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

Jonathan Tisch

#32. You have the soul of a corporation, a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took it as a compliment. Corporations have great power and do fine things in this world when they choose to.

Neal Shusterman

#33. I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great.

Sean Berdy

#34. 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

#35. Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

Abbie Hoffman

#36. To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Ken Blanchard

#41. I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.

Chuck Palahniuk

#42. I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

Justin Trudeau

#43. I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tom Scholz

#44. I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

Jennie Finch

#45. You look great," he said.
It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house."
He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

Kristin Hannah

#46. When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

Trisha Yearwood

#47. 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

#48. But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

Jay Bilas

#52. The people who support me are so great! They all say such nice things that make me feel really great. I love it when people compliment me on the way I act, because it is not an easy thing, and there is so much criticism out there.

Austin Butler

#53. If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!

Mary Morrissey

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

Debasish Mridha

#55. The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

#56. One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation I'm 'a good friend, but not that great.

Mindy Kaling

#57. The weight of a compliment is dependent on how great the complimenter is on the complimented.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#58. I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.

Donna Lynn Hope

#59. You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

Tommy Chong

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

Brian Tracy

#63. You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Teresa Of Avila

#64. Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.

Tiesto

#65. Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

Talib Kweli

#66. You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

Marty Feldman