Compliment Quotes - page 3

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive. (Graham Nelson)
You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful. View quote
Jonathan Tisch
Pretty good, you know its nice when you get people coming up to you saying Can I have a photo or an autograph; its a compliment, I think. View quote
Luke Pasqualino
To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you. View quote
Michael Angarano
If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef. View quote
Michael Strahan
I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment. View quote
Roy Ayers
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. View quote
Scott Caan
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. View quote
Tom T. Hall
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. View quote
Sidney Poitier
We must pity those who have such singular tastes, but never insult them: their lack is a lack in nature. They are no more the masters of arriving in this world with bizarre tastes that we are the masters of arriving bowlegged or shapely. Besides, is a man saying something disagreeable to you when he reveals his desire to enjoy you? Absolutely not! He's paying you a compliment! View quote
Marquis de Sade
I have struggled for forty-seven years, distinguishing myself honourably in every way that I possibly could. I never had a compliment, nor a "thank you," nor a single farthing. I translate a doubtful book in my old age, and I immediately make sixteen thousand guineas. Now that I know the tastes of England, we need never be without money. (Richard Francis Burton)
If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. View quote
Shania Twain
A great proponent of much of what I have just been saying is Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the world humanitarian, who today receives the Nobel Peace Award for 1952. I feel it is a vast compliment to be associated with him in these awards this year. His life has been utterly different from mine, and we should all be happy that his example among the poor and benighted of the earth should have been recognized by the Peace Award of the Nobel Committee. View quote
George C. Marshall
I have been living a hermit-life, though always with my pencil in my hand... How much real delight have I had with the study of landscape this summer! Either I am myself improved in the art of seeing nature, which Sir Joshua call painting, or nature has unveiled her beauties to me less fastidiously. Perhaps there is something of both, so we will divide the compliment. View quote
John Constable
There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me. View quote
George Best
If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South. View quote
Boris Johnson
"But what's the good of this sort of ‘understanding,'” Dearri said, "if it doesn't result in practical, technological applications? Just word juggling, isn't it?” "You ask questions like a true profiteer,” Shevek said, and not a soul there knew he had insulted Dearri with the most contemptuous word in his vocabulary; indeed Dearri nodded a bit, accepting the compliment with satisfaction. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I think it's sort of a compliment. Jay Mohr does it in front of me all the time. I've got another friend who does me on his answering machine. When I call him, I hear myself. View quote
Christopher Walken
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. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
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. (Alistair Cooke)
There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do. They can't sit over their wine; they can't play at wist; and they can't pay a lady a compliment. View quote
Wilkie Collins
On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so. View quote
Richard Rorty
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them. View quote
Laurence Sterne
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. View quote
Mitch Hedberg