He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.
I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then. . . people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know. " It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.
My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better. " Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.
I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet.
It's always nice to receive a compliment.
I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.
I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.