Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Costello

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Samantha Harvey

I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

Paula Abdul

Great. Just what I needed was a compliment on my wardrobe from someone who's always on the worst-dressed list.

Mary Schmich

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

All of them had good years. They compliment the other players around them.

Harvey Mackay

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Patricia Highsmith

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Oscar Wilde

Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

Scott McNealy

When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

Phyllis Diller

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

Paul McCartney

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

Robert Wagner

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

Roy Ayers

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Suzanne Collins

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

Walter Jon Williams

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

William Feather

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

William Shenstone

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Yoko Ono

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.