Compliments Quotes

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock

Life, Women, Food

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Men, Between

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard

Woman, Doubt, Except

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Wishes, Sign

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller

Someone, Old, Shoes

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
Mason Cooley

Leave, Prepared, Insults

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller

Nothing, Pay, Cost

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
Billy Corgan

Criticism, Based, Projection

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland

Time, Good, Heart

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe

Success, Money, Become

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson

Love, Women, Men

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
James Taylor

Musicians, Suffer, Low

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
Gabrielle Union

Someone, Off, Red

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.
Diablo Cody

Positive, Negative, Around

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
Michael Phelps

Greatest, Him, Swimming

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz

Envy, Thought, Around

I can take criticisms but not compliments.
James Taylor

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Good, Nice

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson

Forget, Try, Head

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
Novak Djokovic

Peace, Person, Give

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
Morton Feldman

Government, Give, Country

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
Eydie Gorme

Personal, Questions, Appreciate

One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.
Marlon Wayans

Men, Fun, Greatest

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
LeRoy Neiman

Time, Care, Done

I never get tired of hearing compliments.
John Lithgow

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.
Rose Byrne

Giving, Away, Attention

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O'Hagan

Football, Find, Read

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Richard Cobden

Name, Deserve, Pay

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
Harry Dean Stanton

Street, Recognize, Received

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'
Jack Huston

Love, Become, Everyone

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