Compliment Quotes - page 10

It's always nice to receive a compliment. (Morrissey)
I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.' View quote
Kate Winslet
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep. View quote
Kate Winslet
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility! View quote
Kate Winslet
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. View quote
Joni Mitchell
I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself. View quote
Elvis Costello
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment. View quote
Alexander McQueen
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. View quote
Wayne Gretzky
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one. View quote
Vanessa Mae
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. View quote
Richard Rorty
You know, you're a feminist.” It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone-the same tone with which a person would say, "You're a supporter of terrorism. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. View quote
Dale Carnegie
That we are here in peace today is a compliment and a credit to American civilization, and a prophecy of still greater national enlightenment and progress in the future. I refer to the past not in malice, for this is no day for malice, but simply to place more distinctly in front the gratifying and glorious change which has come both to our white fellow citizens and ourselves, and to congratulate all upon the contrast between now and then, the new dispensation of freedom with its thousand blessings to both races, and the old dispensation of slavery with its ten thousand evils to both races, white and black. In view, then, of the past, the present, and the future, with the long and dark history of our bondage behind us, and with liberty, progress, and enlightenment before us, I again congratulate you upon this auspicious day and hour. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. View quote
Dale Carnegie
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment. View quote
Katherine Paterson
Each of us has been made "a little lower than the angels.” What an incomprehensible compliment! But it's not only a compliment; it's also a responsibility, for our special status equalizes us with other people in the eyes of God. The Lord has exalted not only me or some special group; God has exalted everyone. It's the people of Burkina Faso and Niger and Guyana and Haiti. It's people who never learned to read and write or who live on fifty cents a day. All human beings have been made a little lower than the angels, and we have a responsibility to treat them accordingly. View quote
Jimmy Carter
One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
People don't usually compliment your character. View quote
Taylor Swift
So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me. View quote
Taylor Swift
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. (Oscar Wilde)
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment. View quote
Desmond Morris
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.' View quote
Henry Rollins
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box. View quote
Talib Kweli