Browsing Topic Best Compliment Quotes

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy…whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue –and things like that– but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it’s always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

A day doesn’t go by when I don’t get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I’m ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

I am a comedian but it’s usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That’s strange.

If something is successful with the audience, it’s automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

My dad is probably the most proud person when it comes to me, and we have a great relationship. If people have a compliment about my character, they usually say they can tell I was raised right, and that’s the truth.

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you’re a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you’re exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that’s not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it’s a sterling compliment.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

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.’

You have to love yourself or you’ll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin… Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That’s supposed to be a criticism, but I consider it a compliment because I think being carefree on the course is one of the secrets to scoring well consistently

He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Never miss it – that’s the second biggest compliment I’d give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who’s interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.

When someone compliments you, listen, but don’t believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that ‘I love your band Sugar Ray.

I understand what’s going on, and when I see the fervor, when I see 25,000 people that have seats and not one person during an hour speech will sit down, I say sit down everybody, sit down, and they don’t sit down, I mean, that’s a great compliment but I do understand the power of the message. There’s no question about that.

The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.

I’m very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

There’s a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin’s theory of evolution – ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’