Compliment Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

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!

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.

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

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.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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 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.

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

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

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

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.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

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