Compliment Quotes

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

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!

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

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

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

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

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.

So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.

It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.