Quotes About Compliment

Don't look so upset," Hyacinth said, once it was just the two of them again. "You're quite a catch." He looked at her assessingly. "Is one meant to say such things quite so directly?" She shrugged. "Not to men one is trying to impress." "Touché, Miss Bridgerton." She sighed happily. "My three favorite words." Of that, he had no doubt.

You're charm can be terrifying." "I suppose if you put it that way I cannot help but be complimented.

What are you up to?" she asked. "Why would you think I'm up to anything?" Her lips pursed before she said, "You wouldn't be you if you weren't up to something." He smiled at that. "I do believe that was a compliment." "It wasn't necessarily intended as such." "But nonetheless," he said mildly, "that's how I choose to take it.

Dunford arrived a few minutes later and gave her an approving nod. "You look lovely, Henry." She smiled her thanks but decided not to put too much stock in his compliment. It sounded like the sort of thing he said automatically to any woman in his vicinity.

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.)

Farmer George. That was what people called him behind his back. Little did they know he took it as a compliment. He had meant what he'd said to his mother that morning. The earth was beautiful. Soil was a miracle, and from it sprang all life and hope.

What are you up to?" she asked. "Why would you think I'm up to anything?" Her lips pursed before she said, "You wouldn't be you if you weren't up to something." He smiled at that. "I do believe that was a compliment." "It wasn't necessarily intended as such." "But nonetheless," he said mildly, "that's how I choose to take it." -Sophie & Benedict

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'

I've had one or two interactions with Scott Holtzman and I've watched his fights and I thought to myself, great fight, great competition and a great guy. The few interactions I had with him, he's such a great guy.

I have to try hard—but I do succeed—to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee—'souple mais ferme.

These days the only time people get to feel appreciated by others or hear something good about themselves is when they're being read their eulogies.

It is of the very nature of a high ideal to be unattainable, to admit only of approximation; and one of the highest compliments that can be paid to Christianity is that, when purely presented, it is apt to seem a great deal too good for the creatures to whom it is addressed.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

Why are you staring at me?" she'd ask. "'Cause you're pretty," I'd reply. "You're the first one who's ever said that." "I'm the only one who knows," I'd tell her. "And believe me, I know.

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Hi," I return, gesturing to the fish. "Nice catch." "Yeah. I'm kind of impressed with myself. I always thought redheads were sexy." "Ha-ha. I meant the fish." "Ah. Yes.

A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress ' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.

Flora pressed Rennett's hand graciously, and congratulated her upon her striking toilette, which had been borrowed from one of Mr Mybug's girl friends who drank rather a lot in one way and another and kept a tame boxer in her studio for the sheer love of the thing.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Like all of his friends, he considered it a compliment when somebody called him a wiseass.

Zidane told me that since Messi, he had never seen a left foot like mine. I was a little impressed, because Messi is a piece of a footballer.