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Quotes About Compliment

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.
~ Vera-Ellen
Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.
~ Judah Friedlander
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
~ Mark Twain
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
~ Unknown
Ah, my dear, you are a good wife. You are my beauty. You are my only love.
~ Philippa Gregory
You are lucky in your looks," she says. "Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender, skin like a rose petal and that wonderful hair, gold and bronze all at once. Undoubtedly you will have beautiful children. I suppose you are still proud of your looks? I suppose you are still vain?" I
~ Philippa Gregory
Well, I know what I want to be too," she told her parents. "An actress on Broadway." "Caroline, you're always onstage, twenty-four hours a day," said her father. "You can't even tie your shoes without making a production of it." Caroline wasn't sure if that was a compliment or not.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
There. I'd actually said it. I had told her she was beautiful, even though she might need a translator to have my meaning properly conveyed.
~ Dean Koontz
said, "You're the best boy, sweetie
~ Dean Koontz
You're beautiful." And I meant it.
~ Debbie Macomber
You are the most amazing woman I've ever known, Merry Knight, and I'm crazy about you and that dimple of yours.
~ Debbie Macomber
Ending a conversation by showing appreciation for the interchange You emanate poise and self-confidence when you bid adieu by expressing your gratitude and praising your partner in some way. This is accomplished in much the same way as using a compliment to forward a conversation, and the same rule applies: Be genuine. Done sincerely, offering gratitude will produce a wave of goodwill and a positive association with your name.
~ Debra Fine
Nobody's going to cook me and eat me, I hope. People don't quite understand, Michael said, and he may have been serious, to be eaten pays a compliment to your power.
~ Denis Johnson
She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
~ Dennis Lehane
I like ye fat, Sassenach," he said softly. "Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Amphora," he murmured against the wide, sweet curve of her lips. His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance. "Like a Grecian vase. God, you've got the most beautiful arse!" "Jug-butt, huh?
~ Diana Gabaldon
On ne pense qu'à quoi ? – Tu sais très bien ce que je veux dire. – Pour ça, oui. Je me demandais simplement... c'est une insulte ou un compliment ? J'ouvris la bouche, puis la refermai, lui renvoyant son regard rêveur. – Si la chaussure sied à ton pied, enfile-la, déclarai-je.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
~ Dale Carnegie
You're not horribly terrible." He shook his head at her. "You say the nicest things." He held her gaze for a moment. "You're not trying to get into my pants, are you?
~ Unknown
Ready, love? No, don't even try to stand up, I won't allow it. Has anyone ever told you how lovely you look in braids? So innocent and sweet; no, don't scowl, it doesn't become you at all! Up we go!" "Got her, Sir Graham?" "Of course I have her, you fool," the admiral said, but good-naturedly. Above Maeve's head, he shot the surgeon a wink, then kicked the door open with his foot.
~ Unknown
The great tennis player John McEnroe used this to his advantage on the courts. When an opponent was performing especially well, for example by using a particularly good backhand, McEnroe would compliment him on it. McEnroe knew this would cause the opponent to think about his backhand, and this thinking disrupted the automatic application of it.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
~ Valorie Curry
People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.
~ Stanley Donen