Compliments Quotes

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.