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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.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

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.

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

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

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.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.

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.

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

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

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

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.