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 wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show. ' And I think, no thank you.
I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.
I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
She's a total bam bam.
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
People give out compliments because it's polite.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow.
The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.
I take it as a real compliment that people believe that I can in some ways mine the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the somewhat off-center - psychologically speaking - people in our society, and bring a real humanity to them, and make people see what would otherwise be a person that you would hate. Find a reason to love them and see the world from their point of view.
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.