Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due Quotes & Sayings

"You laid it on a little thick out there."
Morpheus clucks his tongue. "I performed masterfully," he answers, at last managing to claim his hat from Chessie.
"Right," Jeb scoffs. "Pretty sure my mistreatment wouldn't have sent you into hysterics, drama queen."
Morpheus smirks. "Fair enough. On the other hand, your portrayal of a brainless wind-up numbskull was spot on."
Jeb's lips quiver, as if he's fighting a smile himself. "You know, I still have enough paint to make that flyswatter."
"Tut. No need for violence." Morpheus taps the dust from his hat and places it on his head. "I'm simply giving credit where it's due." — A.G. Howard

If your new boss wanted yo on the island, wouldn't she just have told you to go there?" Thomas asked.
"Seems like," I said. "Taking her orders is pretty much my job now."
Molly snorted softly.
"Maybe I'll grow into it," I said. "You don't know."
Thomas snorted softly. — Jim Butcher

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator. — Christopher Galvin

I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at all. — Heather Headley

Do more than dream. Work. — William Arthur Ward

I want to give credit where credit is due to Eric Radomski, who is the head of our production for Marvel Animation and who also happened to direct the pilot as well, has been the supervising producer on the show and has really been just looking at every single way that we can just plus up. This is a great-looking show. — Jeph Loeb

What do you most wish for, Izzy?"
"Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures. — Mary Novik

When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing. — Marvin Gaye

Not ... good." Stefano pressed his lips together.
"Okay. Don't speak I'll touch you, okay?"
"You do," Stefano answered. You do touch me. — Aleksandr Voinov

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong. — James Elroy Flecker

I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it. — Drew Carey

As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.' — Edward Forbes

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten. — Rob Bell

Give credit to whom credit due. — Samuel Adams

Bernard: ... By the way, Valentina, do you want credit? - 'the game book recently discovered by.'?
Valentine: It was never lost, Bernard.
Bernard: 'As recently pointed out by.' I don't normally like giving credit where it's due, but with scholarly articles as with divorce, there is a certain cachet in citing a member of the aristocracy. I'll pop it in ad lib for the lecture, and give you a mention in the press release. How's that?
Valentine: Very kind. — Tom Stoppard

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country. — Danny Glover

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. — Loretta Young

I think that we all carry the divine within us. — Isabelle Adjani