Quotes About Compliments

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Peter never met a compliment he didn't smile at.

Elaine and I sit on the porch and wait for Mark to come over. She tells me my hair looks pretty, and I compliment her on her new suit again. I wish I had a two-piece. We see Mark coming up the walk with a blue towel slung around his neck, and Elaine whispers, "Here comes your

When people are complimented on what they're wearing, they accept as if it was about them. "Nice tie." "Thank you very much!" That's the job of clothes: to get compliments, because it's hard to get them based on human qualities. No matter how nice you are, nobody will say, "Nice person." It's easier to be a bastard and match the colors up.

He can't get along without having someone pat him on the back and tell him he's doing all right, that he's a wonderful young man, and all that stuff.

I come from a background where there would be one mirror above the basin that was used by everyone in the house. If you spent more than five minutes in front of the mirror, you would probably get a whack. My mother was so strict that if anyone complimented me for being pretty, she would not encourage that discussion.

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.

I really respect the kind of compliments and appreciation I am getting for my work in 'Sonu Ke Titu Ke Sweety,' and I will make sure that I will not disappoint my audience in future.

Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.

The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. You've got a big heart and I've got an even bigger...you know. So we're both winners. KG

Lafayette showed a courtier's love of compliments, was a master of flattery, and liked to hug people in the French manner. Perhaps Washington doted on the young man because he dared to express emotions that he himself stifled, thawing his frosty reserve and opening an outlet for his suppressed emotions.

so stingy with compliments

Technique 52: Carrier pigeon kudos People immediately grow a beak and metamorphosize themselves into carrier pigeons when there's bad news. (It's called gossip.) Instead, become a carrier of good news and kudos. Whenever you hear something complimentary about someone, fly to them with the compliment. Your fans may not posthumously stuff you and put you on display in a museum like Stumpy Joe. But everyone loves the Carrier Pigeon of kind thoughts.

I like talking to you,' he said, slowly. 'Why?' That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.