Compliment Quotes

• In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Magic
  • Cold
  • Summer

• I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Character
  • Calling
  • Compliment

• I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'Is that the first time you said that?' It's something that you've said a thousand times, but if somebody says to you, 'Oh my God, is that the first time you've done that?' you know that performance was where you wanted it.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Something
  • Performance
  • Somebody

• Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

  

  Richard Rorty
  • Sentences
  • Compliment
  • Simply

• I . . . hit him . . . elsewhere.” “Where?” “In his . . .In his inguine.” “Oh, dear God.” It was unclear whether Ralston’s words were meant as prayer or blasphemy. What was clear was that the woman was a gladiator. “He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!” She registered her brother’s fists and looked to Simon. “I see that it is not a compliment.” “No. It is not.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Waiting
  • Brother
  • Prayer

• True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.

  

  Cecil B. Day
  • Love
  • Forever
  • Compliment

• If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

  

  Michael Strahan
  • Cooking
  • Compliment

• For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.

  

  Eva Herzigova
  • Actress
  • Compliment
  • Curves

• See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Trouble
  • Next
  • Mess

• Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

  

  George Will
  • Writing
  • Compliment
  • Draws

• So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Different
  • Long
  • Poverty

• I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Creative

• The best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Mother
  • Appreciate
  • Compliment

• Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

  

  Robert Wagner
  • Compliment
  • Anybody

• Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • People
  • Praise
  • Sunshine

• The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Family
  • Forget
  • Compliment

• The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Friends
  • Confidence
  • Compliment

• I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.

  

  Erin Davie
  • People
  • Normal
  • Compliment

• The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Moving
  • Air
  • Drink

• It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Character
  • Struggle
  • Challenges

• I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Crazy
  • Film
  • Audience

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