Compliment Quotes · Page 21

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

— Anonymous

I like when my freckles show or when I do shoots and they accentuate them. It's such a compliment.

— Madison Beer

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite…

— Amanda Beard

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

— Malcolm Forbes

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

— Nikki Glaser

The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.

— Tamron Hall

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

— Marshall Faulk

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be…

— Alan Zweibel

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles…

— Wyatt Earp

While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that…

— Stephane Rolland

“So when you negate someone’s compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You’re telling them they wasted their time. You are…

— Shonda Rhimes

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did…

— Ashley Jensen

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one.…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Typically, when I am creating individual songs, I like to listen to beats, feel the vibe and create off of that. I…

— Koffee

You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment…

— Meg Cabot

Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not…

— Mark Shields

You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping…

— Jon Stewart

Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a bitch is assertive, unapologetic, demanding,…

— Margaret Cho

We compliment weight loss, monitor our appetites, and shrink ourselves to fit some kind of standard. I wish we could all be…

— Sark

Oh God almighty, another Detroit monster is Chad Smith of the Chili Peppers. Their music is intoxicating between Flea and Chad Smith.…

— Ted Nugent

Well, you know, the best compliment I've ever gotten from a coworker is Anna Drezen, who is a longtime friend of mine…

— Bowen Yang

I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long…

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a…

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Jorma Taccone

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

— Joyce Brothers

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment…

— Anonymous

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

— Trisha Yearwood

“You may say, “I’d compliment him if he did something right.” Well, he did at least one thing right. He married you!”

— Tony Evans

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I want to make people feel emotional. It's the biggest compliment: 'You made me cry.' That's all I want. I just want…

— Sophie Thatcher

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

— William Feather

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like,…

— Sarah Silverman

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

— Sidney Poitier

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

— Barbara Hamby

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

— Criss Jami

One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.

— Gregory Porter

“Jaxon gave me a compliment. I was sure there’d be winged pigs up there somewhere.”

— Chris Cannon

“I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment—that just anyone could like you.”

— Gillian Flynn

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

— Alanis Morissette