Compliment Quotations | Page 4

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

It's always nice to receive a compliment.

When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

People don't usually compliment your character.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

You got amphetamine eyes.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.

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.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

Everybody likes compliment.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word

Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

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

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.