Greatest Compliment Quotes

#1. When we came out with 'Lazy Sunday,' the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.

Jorma Taccone

#2. Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.

Jean Webster

#3. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

Irving Chernev

#5. So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

Shelby Lynne

#6. "You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.

Gene Perret

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny, and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

Julie Newmar

#13. As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

Henry Adams

#14. 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

#15. The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.

Ron Baratono

#16. The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

Iris Johansen

#17. <> he asks. I sit down and think about it. I could list a million reasons. Gray sits next to me.
<> I say. <> I stop rambling and look over at Gray. He's smiling. <> he says. <> I say, stunned. It's the greatest compliment he could ever give me.

Katie Kacvinsky

#18. The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box.

Ray Wilkins

#19. As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

Clarence Clemons

#20. The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

Casey Kasem

#21. Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Your wife's willingness to allow a daughter to grow inside her who had, by all laws of probability, a fifty-percent chance of inheriting your face, is something you should view as a compliment. Perhaps the greatest compliment a woman can give a man.

Herman Koch

#23. It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Alain De Botton

#24. This was the lesson of the lesser dog: all violence is risk. Even the smallest dog can win if it encourages the strong dogs to take all the risk for themselves.

Edward W. Robertson

#25. It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State.

Murray N. Rothbard

#26. Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Wyatt Earp

#27. There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

Kid Rock

#28. I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nick Cave

#29. I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#30. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

William James

#31. Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

Israel Albert Horowitz

#32. I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.

Christine Woods

#33. Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.

Jeff Ross

#34. I'm not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person's face from the hat and be like "Do you see that!" It's about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.

Laura Owens

#35. I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

Marilynne Robinson

#36. Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.

Natalie Goldberg

#37. [Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.

Ali Al-Sistani

#38. Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.

David Brin

#39. People like people who help them like themselves.

Dale Carnegie

#40. The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.

Laird Barron