Quotes on Compliments

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Author: David Amram

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

Author: Laurie Anderson

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.

Author: Richard Cobden

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

Author: Mason Cooley

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

Author: Bill Dickey

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Author: Thomas Fuller

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

Author: Eydie Gorme

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

Author: Elbert Hubbard

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Author: Alice James

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

Author: John Lithgow

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

Author: Lennart Meri

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Author: Joshua Slocum

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Author: James Taylor

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

Author: James Taylor

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

Author: Sun Tzu