Top 100 Quotes About Compliments
#1. She should have cut off her damn hair ages ago, but the long, dark locks were her one claim to beauty and she was vain enough to enjoy the compliments.
Jamie Grey
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. That even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.
Isaac Asimov
#5. 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
#6. Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#7. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Criss Jami
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
Dean Wareham
#11. Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
Bruce Lee
#12. When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland
#13. Think of how much better the world would be if people craved compliments about the beauty of their heart rather than the beauty of their face. The
Penny Reid
#14. Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
#15. It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
Alan Garner
#16. 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
#17. I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'
Jo Koy
#18. Compliments are not things I know how to process.
Tahereh Mafi
#19. 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
#20. Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
Billy Corgan
#21. It is nothing to say lovely things to someone who expects them, needs them. The beauty is when one who does not expect them comes to believe them - that only happens when the compliments and the love behind them are sincere.
Katherine Reay
#22. I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden
#23. They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
Mark Twain
#24. I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
#25. 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
#26. If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.
Max Winkler
#27. Thank you - for all your compliments about the general badassery of my family's DNA.
Katie Ashley
#28. 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
#30. As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
Ben Bradlee
#31. I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake.
Megan Fox
#32. 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
#33. Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Oscar Wilde
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
Frederick Buechner
#37. By ignoring compliments and homages we lead the person paying those compliments to think we look down on him, when in fact we are only doubting ourselves.
Albert Camus
#38. True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.
Sabrina Newby
#39. There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
Eydie Gorme
#40. Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde
#41. These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.
Iris Apfel
#42. A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.
Seneca.
#43. I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James
#44. I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson
#45. A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard
#46. Kiddo, I rarely get compliments. So I just decide to compliment myself instead. You should try it sometime.
Karina Halle
#47. 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
#48. The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.
Irakli Okruashvili
#49. Compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.
Jonathan Franzen
#50. You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
#51. At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.
William Henry Moody
#52. If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as well and do some mistakes ... I tend to sacrifice myself for my next album.
Park Bom
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything?
Joe Tye
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. I would have so many friends if I help back the truth and just gave out compliments.
Drake
#60. The dullest thing in the world is waiting for your scene. But the most exciting thing is seeing yourself on the screen and then getting compliments.
Casey Kasem
#61. Clumsy in your compliments, or perhaps it is your eyesight which has grown clumsy?" "Only
Rose Gordon
#62. 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
#63. Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love.
Gary Chapman
#64. that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments.
Jane Austen
#65. Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.
Michael Dolan
#66. 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
#67. I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.
Samantha Harvey
#68. Mr Norrell was delighted. He did not believe that anyone had ever proposed such a piece of magic before and begged Sir Walter to convey his compliments to Lord Castlereagh as the possessor of a most original brain.
Susanna Clarke
#69. I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder
#70. I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong
Paul Scholes
#71. Women need food, water, and compliments
That's right.
And an occasional pair of shoes.
Chris Rock
#73. When Calvin had first started showing an interest in me, he showered me compliments, teased me affectionately, and made little excuses to see me, all of which were flattering, but the biggest clue that he liked me was his sudden interest in taking care of me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#75. And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone ...
Nancy Moser
#76. I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
Jane Austen
#77. I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.
P.T. Barnum
#78. A man who compliments a girl on her looks before he knows her is trouble.
Eva Flynn
#79. He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the
reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.
Oscar Wilde
#80. Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.
Steve Goodier
#81. I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'
Jack Huston
#82. One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
Nathan Lane
#83. I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.
Alanis Morissette
#84. People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments
Manjula Martin
#85. It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't.
John Green
#86. It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
Oscar Wilde
#87. Why do you do that?
Do what?
Blow off compliments.
I don't.
You kind of do.
Sorry.
Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.
Marisa Reichardt
#88. I love your bracelet!' I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.
Ally Carter
#89. When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
Zendaya
#90. 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
#91. Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.
Criss Jami
#92. Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.
Tory Burch
#93. If you're not used to compliments, they can really mess you up for a minute.
Louise Rozett
#94. When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Compliments like that are only going to get you everywhere.
Kenya Wright
#96. I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God.
Patience Johnson
#97. 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
#98. There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock
#99. Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]
Sylvia Boorstein
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