Top 17 When Someone Compliments You Quotes
#1. When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.
Frederick Lenz
#2. You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller
#3. 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
#4. It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
Joshua Slocum
#5. As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
Arsene Wenger
#6. I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people's lives.
My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments.
Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.
JohnA Passaro
#7. If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I'll ever be with another woman. I can't imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff - the talk, the chatter, the dinners. I'd have to take someone places, explain my history, make jokes, dole out compliments, hold back farts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#8. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
William Shenstone
#9. 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
#10. I can take criticisms but not compliments.
James Taylor
#11. A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.
Mariette Hartley
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints.
Sarvesh Jain
#16. Right, now he was a generous, scary, psychopath who was genius at throwing out compliments however they came and unbelievably arrogant.
Kristen Ashley
#17. 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