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Quotes About Compliment

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.
~ Carson Kressley
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
~ Glenn Greenwald
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'
~ Alain de Botton
Suck up with subtlety.
~ Guy Kawasaki
The open, unashamed adoption of what had become to the whole world the most prominent sign of Nazism was the last compliment Stalin paid to his late colleague and rival in total domination with whom, much to his chagrin, he had not been able to come to a lasting agreement.
~ Hannah Arendt
Toda virtud comienza con el cumplido que se le hace, mediante el cual se expresa la satisfacción por ella.
~ Hannah Arendt
I shook my head. "And I thought you were a genius when I saw your paintings." "Really?" She seemed caught off guard by the compliment. "Really." She cleared her throat. "And now that you see how deceptive I can be?" "I think you're a diabolical genius." Natalie
~ Harlan Coben
I shook my head. "And I thought you were a genius when I saw your paintings." "Really?" She seemed caught off guard by the compliment. "Really." She cleared her throat. "And now that you see how deceptive I can be?" "I think you're a diabolical genius." Natalie liked that. "You can't fault me. That Lars guy is like human Ambien. He opens his mouth, I'm out." "I'm
~ Harlan Coben
I was really touched when I reached the sets of 'Padmaavat' and I greeted Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He hugged me, held my hand high and told everyone, 'Razasaab is with us again. I cannot think of a film without Razasaab!' That was such a big compliment for me.
~ Raza Murad
The greatest compliment a coach can get from another coach around the league is, 'Hey, your guys play hard. They're tough.'
~ Sean McDermott
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
~ Billy Butler
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.'
~ Henry Rollins
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.
~ Taylor Swift
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.
~ Tiesto
Ashiana… has no one ever told you?" He reached out to tilt her chin up, his touch as gentle as his voice. "I am not teasing when I call you sundar. Your eyes are the color of ocean waves in the morning sun. Your skin is like the silk the Hindus call 'the white of the clouds when the rain is spent.' And the rest of you…" His voice deepened. "… is delicate and feminine and perfect.
~ Shelly Thacker
To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn't a compliment to a woman, it's more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.
~ Sherry Thomas
During cocktails, Octavio Paz walked up to me with a champagne glass in hand and said, "Vous avez les seins très beaux
~ Sherry Turkle
Gruffly, he cleared his throat. 'Don't take this as a blanket approval of your tactics, Sarah, but if I'm ever unfortunate enough to get in trouble with the law, I want you to represent me.' Before I could respond to this startling and totally out-of-the-blue compliment, he opened the door and was nudging me inside. I caught a quick glance of his face before he walked off toward the dining room. He was actually blushing!
~ Shirley Tallman
You're too cute, Katinka, for a historian.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.
~ Simone Elkeles
You look like a hot tamale." "That's not really a compliment.
~ Simone Elkeles
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
~ Sir John A. MacDonald
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.
~ William Shakespeare
True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.
~ Cecil B. Day