Compliment Quotes

• 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

• 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

• I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Proud
  • Winner
  • Voters

• 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

• This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Light
  • Verbiage

• 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."

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Individual
  • Careers
  • Lifetime

• Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Hair

• 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

• Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Body
  • Compliment

• Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.

  

  Nimrat Kaur
  • Great
  • Look
  • Compliment

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

  

  Cecil B. Day
  • Love
  • Forever
  • 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'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

• 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

• 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

• 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'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

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

  

  Robert Wagner
  • Compliment
  • Anybody

• 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 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 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

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