Compliment Quotes

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.