KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Compliment


Share this page on

Showing 1-10 of 84 quotes in the topic Compliment

Everybody likes a compliment.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Compliment Everybody Likes

Keywords: Abandon


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'

~Adam Ross

Topics: Adam After Assure Best Came Compliment Days Editor Every First First Time Food Gary Happen He Lunch Me Meeting New New York Often Ordering Our Page Peanut Read Said Surprised Time Turned Two Were York You I Can Mr

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Answer Compliment Course Did Get Greatest How Just Know Me Much Myself Observed People People Say Say Sentimentality Simple Very Without Writing You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

~Alan Zweibel

Topics: Ability Accepted Acquired Around Being Compliment Funny Innate Labeled Only Regarding Us Way Whether World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

~Alanis Morissette

Topics: About Actually Always Anger Angry Around Because Been Compliment Direct Expressing Fear Had Part Relationships Says Someone Songs Which Why Woman Write

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

~Albert Brooks

Topics: Anything Big Compliment Other Pig Take Than You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

~Alberto Tomba

Topics: Compliment Lack Myself Really Today Words

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

~Alexander Mcqueen

Topics: Compliment Find Ideas Lot Now Shows You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

~Alistair Cooke

Topics: Been Best Child Coincide Come Compliment Conclusions Feeling Free Friend Give He Him His Make Own Right Set Whether You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

~Alvin Lee

Topics: Compliment Crying Did Doing Fact Few He Himself Huge In Fact Keep Loved Me Paid Play Saw Similar Something Sometimes Song Thinking Times Us

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Leonard Cohen Aretha Franklin Langston Hughes Thomas Jefferson Claude Monet Margaret Thatcher Serena Williams William Butler Yeats

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1878 - Joseph Stalin

1835 - Lyman Abbott

1852 - George H. White

1859 - Francis Thompson

1870 - Hector Hugh Munro

1886 - Ty Cobb

1888 - Robert Moses

1890 - Edwin Armstrong

1904 - George Stevens

1907 - Christopher Fry

Birthdays on December 18th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Dad Family Friendship Home Nature Patriotism Success Women