Compliment Quotes

• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • Friendship
  • Sure

• It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Words
  • Worship
  • Confession

• 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Character
  • Want
  • Compliment

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• At a wedding last week, my wife said: 'Isn't the bride beautiful ?' When I responded by saying, 'Yeah, but her blowjobs aren't half as good as yours', she got all pissed off. Women - they can't take a compliment!

  

  David Henry
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Wedding

• Everybody likes a compliment.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Everybody
  • Compliment
  • Likes

• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Behaved

• If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Leader
  • Try
  • Compliment

• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  

  Doris Day
  • Poverty
  • Gratitude
  • Compliment

• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• That just goes with the territory whenever you're a superstar and play for a great team. That's a compliment. That means you've made it.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Great
  • Team
  • Territory

• 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 Black Star
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Compliment

• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Friend

• 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
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Face

• I could live a week on one good compliment.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Live
  • Week

• I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Model
  • Patient
  • Describe

• My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Responsibility
  • Ridiculous
  • Embarrassed

• A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Example
  • Compliment
  • Confidential

• When you touch me, good God.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • God
  • Me

• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • You
  • Find
  • Compliment

• I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.

  

  Imelda May
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Nice

• Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Take
  • Compliment
  • Carry

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