Compliment Quotes
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The fact that the academy is seen as being so important to the cultural conversation is a big compliment.
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An Italian piazza was my vision - a place where people would come and meet, see an exhibition, browse through books, have a drink, eat, rest, shop. Even today, the best compliment is when someone tells me that they were having a difficult day, and when they came here, they felt better.
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
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Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
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It is probably the best validation, the best compliment: that when somebody says you are getting good things in life, and you deserve this.
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My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
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My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.
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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.
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Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.
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Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
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To be honest, it's nothing but a compliment. It's amazing to be compared to them... Vanessa would be Party Spice, I'd say Una would be Feisty Spice, Frankie could be Flirty Spice, and Mollie would be Smiley Spice.
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Everybody appreciates a compliment.
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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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.
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You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
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Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
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Being compared to that man Michael Jordan, who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the greatest ever, is an amazing compliment, but I still want to be looked at as an individual and have my own lane and my own career and looked at as "That's Mike." "That' s Michael B."
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When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.
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When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life.
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If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.
