Top 262 Compliment Quotes

I have been called a stallion before, and it was always meant as a compliment.

I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star – though I don’t know if that’s a compliment, honestly.

As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get the job done despite the obstacles he’ll face.

Well, I’m certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I’m doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth – if the latter were unflattering.

When people say to me, ‘You’re like the Anna Kournikova who wins,’ I definitely take it as a compliment, because she’s quite gorgeous.

Pretty good, you know it’s nice when you get people coming up to you saying ‘Can I have a photo or an autograph’; it’s a compliment, I think.

When someone acknowledges you for something that they think about you, it’s a huge compliment.

A lot of people say about ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Well, how do you feel about gossip?’ Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it’s not flattering or a compliment.

I’ve always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said ‘Your very handsome, Poppy.’ That was the best compliment ever.

I want to compliment Francesco Totti: scoring 206 goals is a great achievement. It does not matter that he has beat me, as he is a great player.

The things that Dirk has done for this league and for the Dallas Mavericks, it’s unbelievable. And Coach Kidd was a teammate of Dirk, so for Jason Kidd to compare me with Dirk Nowitzki, it feels nice. It’s a nice compliment.

I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people’s needs and they don’t think the world revolves around them.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Society tends to pin women against each other, but we need to treat each other with kindness and compliment one another instead. Because women’s voices are the strongest when they’re together.

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.

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!

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

When I started playing in Sweden, there was nobody watching. No one knew who I was, so I was just playing for the love of the game. And after my first season, my coach came up to me and said, ‘Of all the people you’re the one who smiles the most on the field,’ and that was the biggest compliment I ever received.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn’t much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you’re in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don’t even know you can come up and just dump on you.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, ‘You’re a great listener.’ Haven’t heard it yet, and that’s a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I’m going to work on it.

I feel happy whenever people compliment me.

So it’s the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

As far as most improved, I don’t take it as a backhanded compliment at all. That’s what you’re supposed to do as a professional.

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that’s, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.

A lot of other bass players have told me I’m the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he’s playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.

The song ‘Conceited’ on ‘There’s Something About Remy’ was inspired by people always telling me that I’m so much prettier in person or that I’ve lost so much weight since they saw me on TV. I don’t even know if that’s a compliment. Were you watching me on TV thinking I was ugly?

After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person.

Here’s what happens – you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then… people’s reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it’s a compliment.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

I was reading an article about Kings of Leon’s bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, ‘Woah!’ It surprised me. It’s a great compliment.

There’s consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard’s African novels.

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.

I take it as a compliment now that I look different. I think l look okay.

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.

People who have no idea it’s me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, ‘That’s her from whatever it is,’ it’s a great compliment that they can forget.

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.’

Being compared to ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ is a huge compliment.

If you want to be universally loved, forget a career in broadcasting. You can’t compliment a team without necessarily dissing their opponent.

So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it’s compliment really.

I was honored to wear ‘Arizona’ across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

It’s always nice to get a storyline – I know all actors say that, but it genuinely is, as it feels like the show’s team are putting their faith in you to do it justice, so it’s quite a compliment.

‘Click’ is a horror film and a first for me. People think I always had a face good enough to do films of this genre. So now I’d take that as a compliment.

The irony is, when people now compliment my ability to make something out of nothing on the football field, my mom is the one who’s been doing so in real life all along.

It’s the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody’s influence, for sure.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you’re in, it’s a great compliment.

I wouldn’t take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, ‘Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.’ There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.

At my degree show, someone said, ‘It’s nice, but it’s very feminine.’ I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I’ve had plastic surgery.