Compliment Quotes

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 compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

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

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.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded 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.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

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.

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

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.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

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

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.