Complimenting Quotes & Sayings

Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others. — Rhonda Byrne

I love your inside,
complimenting your outside,
a wonderful fusion,
that makes you so irresistible. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right. — Carolina Herrera

Living in the era of social media and dating apps, online dating is also a very popular dating method in England. It perfectly suits the English person's superpower: being the invisible man or woman. They also like to keep their distance, and the internet is perfect for that. Also complimenting someone is easier online than offline; you don't even have to say anything you just press a 'like' or a 'wink' button and that's it; perfectly suitable for romantically retarded people. — Angela Kiss

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. — Charles Dickens

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him. — Patrick DeWitt

He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude? — Mary Balogh

She is complimenting me, but I still feel like she smacked me with something. — Veronica Roth

My career has worked out exactly how I like, and I am just happy to go to a coffee shop and nobody knows me, or when they do, they are complimenting me on the work they have seen, and it feels very genuine. — Jason Clarke

She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at all, and kept her peace. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done. — Thomas Leonard

Less gossiping, more encouraging.
Less complaining, more thanksgiving.
Less criticizing, more complimenting.
Less hurting, more helping.
Less hating, more caring. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Jason Isaacs

I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected. — Rankin

When she was eight years old, Bridget Barsamian woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told her she shouldn't be alive. It's possible that he was complimenting her heart's determination to keep pumping when half her blood was still uptown on 114th Street, but more likely he was scolding her for roller-skating into traffic the way she had. — Rebecca Stead

A good rule to remember in complimenting people is this: people are more pleased at a compliment if you praise them for some virtue that is not glaringly obvious. — Leslie T. Giblin

I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.
Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore? — Abigail Roux

If at all there is anything like a God's gift, then surely that gift is not the talent itself but a life complimenting that talent. — Ashutosh Gupta

To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. — Gore Vidal

You're an awful conversationalist," Amaranthe said. "How is it possible I prefer spending time with you?"
"Most people don't want to talk to assassins."
"I'm a unique individual."
"Yes," he said, deadpan.
"I'm never quite sure if you're complimenting me ... or not."
His eyes glinted as they passed a streetlamp. "Good. — Lindsay Buroker

Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way. — Mary J. Blige

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly. — Charles Duhigg

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment. — Harold S. Kushner

They're important but we're ignoring a lot of other parts that are probably just as compliment-worthy and sexy because we're too busy complimenting firm pecs and thin waists and untarnished souls. Branch out a little, is all I'm saying. It couldn't hurt. I bet your small intestines are adorable. — Jenny Lawson

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. — Victoria Beckham

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get. — Kevin Hart

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation. — Oliver Goldsmith

It put him out of humor for the rest of the day.It stuck in his craw and festered thered.A nasty little canker sore on the ego.
Snob? Where did the woman get off calling him a snob? And after he'd made the effort to be friendly, even complimenting her on her snooty little riding academy.
He did the evening check himself, as was his habit, and spent considerable time going over the prime filly who was to head down to Hialeah to race there. Ttavis wanted Brian to go along for this one, and he was more than happy to oblige.
It would do him a world of good to put a thousand miles or so between himself and Keeley.
"Shouldn't be looking in that direction, even for a blink," he muttered, then nuzzled the filly. — Nora Roberts

You're real pretty. Got good strong thighs. And you've got oral skills most men would kill for." Now everyone turned and looked at Sissy Mae. "That's lovely, Sissy," Marty sighed out. "I was only complimenting her." "Compliments like that create hookers. — Anonymous

Teachers often fail students by complimenting the successful students and ignoring those who do not prove as successful. Teachers need to embrace and praise all children. — Asa Don Brown

You're trying to be cool now, Leif? Seriously?"
"I am the shit, home slice, straight up," he replied.
"No. I mean, don't get me wrong, this is a great effort, but you still need to use more contractions. And your tone is so formal, it's like you're complimenting the pudding at a duke's dinner party."
"Fucking H!" the vampire shouted, shaking his free left fist. He enunciated the g very clearly and projected his voice from his diaphragm, like a trained opera singer.
"It's fuckin' A, not H, but yeah Leif, go ahead, let's throw down. — Kevin Hearne

Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation. — Ronda Rousey

Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work. — Lauren Hutton

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ... — Lemony Snicket

Are you mocking me again?' How did this man do it? How did he knock her off balance so easily? She might not know a great deal about kissing, but she certainly knew a great deal about conversation. And until she had met Mr. Shaw, she had considered herself quite accomplished at it.

'I'm not mocking you, my lady. I answered your question. If you want a better answer, then ask a better question. You're smarter than this.'

She realized she had no idea if he was insulting her or complimenting her. — Kelly Bowen

I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart. — Aly Michalka

I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting! — Brian Kilmeade

My cowardice is such of passion, complimenting the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow. — Ray Bradbury

Emma looked across the room and met Clary's green gaze with her own. She thought of Clary kneeling in front of her in Idris, holding her hands, complimenting Cortana. She thought of how the kindnesses that were shown to children were things they never forgot. — Cassandra Clare