I don't give out compliments easily.
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness. '
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.
I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.
Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop. ' That's not a compliment.
I find Donald Trump to be incredibly gracious, energetic, I mean the greatest compliment you can get from Donald Trump is not hey, that's brilliant or that was really smart or great job. It's you're really high energy.
Crazy is a compliment.
The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?