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Quotes About Compliment

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.
~ Maya Banks
You just said you were sorry. ... I was only apologizing, he said stiffly, for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-
~ Meg Cabot
I thought you'd like it, he said, seeming hurt. You look very pretty.
~ Meg Cabot
Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.
~ Meg Cabot
Mum, still to this day, says that growing up I seemed destined to be a mix of Robin Hood, Harry Houdini, John the Baptist, and an assassin. I took it as a great compliment.
~ Bear Grylls
A therapist once said to me that I was a good storyteller, but he didn't mean it as a compliment.
~ Ben Tanzer
It's quite a pleasure to look at you sometimes – not now, of course, because you're crying and looking as ugly as the very devil; but when you're all right and quite yourself, you're what I should call attractive.
~ Bernard Shaw
How beautiful you are, my darling. How very beautiful! Behind your veil, your eyes are like doves. Song of Songs 4:1
~ Beth Moore
That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.
~ Jason Kander
To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.
~ Colin Kaepernick
I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again.
~ Scott Adsit
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
~ Gayle Rankin
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
~ Alvin Lee
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
~ Steven Pressfield
professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
~ Steven Pressfield
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.
~ Steven Pressfield
He was probably insulting her, but the way he said the word made her feel almost tall and, if not blonde, then certainly highlighted.
~ Susan Mallery
I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
~ Josh Lanyon
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~ Joyce Brothers
I think there is a compliment there somewhere, but it is very well disguised
~ Jude Morgan
Why, you look marvelous! I don't know what it is, but you look fabulous." D
~ Judith Martin
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you
~ Jules Renard
There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she'd looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.
~ Julia Quinn
You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.
~ Julia Quinn