I was a little kid (7-10, I don’t remember exactly), with my mom at an airport, about to get on a plane for the first time. I took my sketchbook with me. Drawing was my #1 favorite thing to do, so I had a ton of practice and was remarkably good for my age. A total stranger notices, looks at it, and tells me “you’re an amazing artist”. He wasn’t belittling or humoring me, it wasn’t “you WILL BE an amazing artist” – he was impressed. He told me and then just went on his day like he’d made a comment about the weather. I didn’t see him for more than 30 seconds but I can still picture what he looked like to this day even after 20+ years. I didn’t end up making a career out of drawing, but I still think of him from time to time when I make random doodles. I hope he’s having a great life because I held those words with me for years.
I forget most compliments I receive but remember the weird ones. 2 come to mind, the first one was when I was picking up some pizza at a Pizza Hut and the young cashier girl complimented my glasses. The guys were giggling in the back so I assumed she was shooting her shot so I just smiled and said “thank you” just to be nice.
Second one was when I was lined up at Costco and this girl was like “WHO’S WEARING THAT COLOGNE!?” It was the most aggressive ask I’ve ever heard irl from a woman and she said it smelled really good.
On two separate, completely unrelated occasions separated by multiple years I caught the eye of a woman who is the singular most rounded, impressive, capable, thoughtful person I have yet to meet.
Then with her having not seen me in ten years immediately recognizing me and being ecstatic to see me.
On top of that her deciding to lock eyes with me during one of her shows and not look away until she was done singing Cole Porter’s Night and Day.
“There is such an oh hungry burning turning beneath my skin and it’s torment won’t be through till you let me spend my life making love to you, night and day, day and night.”
At one point when I was a teenager, my dad and I were arguing about something. And towards the end of the argument, dude said “boy, you’re too much like me”
I don’t believe I’d ever felt more pride and more anger simultaneously in my entire life, and I doubt I will in the future.
That I definitely had nothing to worry about when it came to bedroom performance. She could’ve been just being nice but I asked for actual critique from this lady. Gave me enough confidence that my future performances usually got back good feedback.
That I had beautiful hair that some women wanted. It’s happened several times. During Covid mask ups I was mistaken as a woman sometimes mainly because of the hair. It was the first time I grew my hair out in my life and it was a nice boost in a darker time.
‘you’re ferociously loyal’ in a professional setting by someone who I look upto. I was underpaid, overworked, but people knew my work and what I did. Later I became a freelancer and been talking to people in the industry, I got this during one of the talks.
A chick said I had nice eyes. No one ever compliments me on that. I definitely didn’t and still don’t believe her. I hold that compliment near and dear to my heart though.
Drinking at a bar shooting the shit with some old timer, he hade to excuse himself because I made him laugh so hard he spit his teeth out. It was one of my top stories.
I’ve had a few people tell me they noticed the way my fiancé looks as me like I’m the best thing in the world. I’ve dated other girls and this has never been said to me. My fiancé also compliments me every single day. So it’s pretty awesome as someone who isn’t use to that type of thing.
They hit a little different for me since I see people at their worst.
“I wish I was one of your kids” stuck with me over the years.
I have had to hold that kid down or run the team putting him on restraints (he’s really a young adult with developmental issues, but to me, he’s a kid).
I try to be gentle despite his extreme levels of violence (scratching, Biting, kicking) he’s gotten better and has come to view the hospital has something of a safe place.
I have permanent scars from him but none cut quite so deep as the day he told me that.
A gay coworker once said I had a “great dead bod” and that I would do very well in the gay community. I think about it at least once a week. Bob you are an angel.
My girl telling me how much she appreciates me, how much I mean to her, how she thinks of me all day during her day, telling me that shes lucky to have me and that she values me.
Never had someone tell me that before… and shes still confused and tells me “im your wife” when I tell her how much that means to me… like its a normal thing to her. But not me. Never felt appreciated or truly wanted for me. Other girls have wanted me but because of things they wanted or saw in me not for the true me
I often get “you’re funny” but only when I’m drinking. Once I was at the doctor for a physical and was told my heart is good for teaching. I have (had?) an innocent heart murmur because I’m thin and I guess it’s good for teaching how blood flows through the heart? Another time I was getting a piercing by a burlesque dancer and was told I have a big tragus lol
I was helping this girl move into her new place with her Mom and Sister. She told me a bit later that her Mom really noticed me, and thought there was something really special about me 🫠😍. Probably the longest sex I had to this day with that girl( an all nighter with breaks😅)… Had to prove her Mom right 🫡.
Sophomore year of college after about 2 weeks of class a girl from class that I had never spoken to called for me in the hallway by my name. She had to have made enough of a mental note to remember my name based on roll call. I take it as a compliment.
One day, a social studies teacher, a brutal guy who had been through a lot of shit in his life, called me “Lone Wolf” in front of the whole group and looked at me with pride. Because I didn’t belong to any group of friends at school and always had my own opinion, and everyone respected me for it. This is the most powerful compliment 🙂
My wife grabbed my dick and said, “I can’t believe this fits inside of me” and every time I think about it I get hard lol its easy spank bank material when I need that push.
I went to my high school reunion a few years ago and one of the girls there yelled out across the room in front of everyone “holy fuck ____ is hot! I want to fuck him!”
She was very drunk. Too drunk to have sex with. But not wrong. Still makes me feel good though.
Was one among many compliments but they aren’t usually that public and that made me feel good.
About 32 years ago, I rode my bike to the library, and I was bending over to lock my bike up when women in a convertible drove by yelled at me, saying, “Nice ass:”
I used to do standup. One night, a very pretty girl, front row center was laughing and clapping at everything I said. My girlfriend at the time went to the bathroom and that girl was in there with her friend. She told her, “I wanna fuck that little guy while he tells me jokes.”
So I heard the compliment second hand, but I’ll take it.
My optometrist told me she likes the colour of my eyes and she has never seen eyes as grey before. For reference, my eyes are almost completely grey. There is a smudge of blue in there somewhere, but you don’t really see that in most lighting conditions.
I always thought they look kinda dead because of it, but my optometrist liked it.
A batchmate told me once that my presentations were always fun to sit in. And remembering that line always makes me more at ease whenever i have to present anything.
I remember every one ive ever gotten because they’re literally that few and far between the one i remember the most memorable.
I was walking next to this girl out to PE, “Everybody thinks you always look angry but you’re really nice.”
I was 9 we’d moved and i had changed schools the year before which fucked me up for a myriad of reasons and ended up forcing me retake second grade, i didnt fit in, and i was i was 2 years older then my classmates because of being born just after the enrollment cutoff and then being forced to retake 2nd grade. She was quite literally the first person to be nice to me in a year.
At my birthday party one year, I was hanging out with a woman I’d sort of known for a few years via a mutual friend. She told me how guys just assume they can get with women and make physical moves unsolicited.
I’d been keen on her for ages, we were sitting on the floor in my kitchen, and said something like “hey, can I ask you a question, and it can totally be a no… we’re hanging out, and I’ll be honest I find myself really attracted to you… Can I kiss you?”
Her eyes went wide and she said “that’s the sexiest thing anyone has ever said to me” grabbed my face and started making out with me.
That was 7 years ago, and we’ve been married for 3 years.
I’ve gotten plenty of appreciation. A few compliments too. Usually along the lines of being loyal, the best friend a person could have, a better parent to my nieces than their own mother, perfect husband material… The general problem is that they don’t come from interested parties. Usually they’re from friends, family, people of the same gender, or married women. Sometimes people who are emotionally unavailable in other ways. I really don’t get it.
An ex made a passive-aggressive comment to me, taking a shot at me but including that I “know I’m handsome” as a negative point. Don’t remember anything after that. A narcissistic woman who posted our business with SZA “I hate you” as a background track. I’ve never had much self confidence about my looks. But a woman who hates me said I’m handsome as an attack. I treasure that.
About 15 years ago my brother in law told me I walked like a Sasquatch. I try to stand up straighter and bend my arms a bit more. I can hardly walk anywhere without thinking about it. I catch a reflection in a window or even my shadow. You might think that’s not a compliment but you’re wrong, constructive criticism can be a compliment, or I have never had one.
I had a co-worker who was a lesbian and she admitted to me on my last day that I turned her bisexual and awoke something in her where she’s into men now too. It still makes me feel good. Like I’m THAT fucking attractive. Damn.
I also had girls touch my face in high school saying how smooth my skin was. One girl just started doing it and was like “WOW your skin is SO smooth!” and another girl did it too.
I my younger days I was kinda/sorta dating a cougar. After the act she asked me to go get her a drink so I got up and went to the kitchen at which point I head, “Goddamn you look good walking away from me.”
I have brown eyes and big lashes. I was on a trip with my friends, we were swimming in hotel pool. She said my eyes looked like they were filled with honey.
Most of my life specially when I was a teenager, people laughed at and bully me because my two front teeth are big. Until recently, someone told me that I have a beautiful smile. It felt so genuine and boosted my confindence instantly. Now, I am proud of my smile regardless of my teeth.
None of us are perfect, but let’s highlight someone’s qualities that makes them beautiful. You have no idea how can you make the world better with this simple gesture.
Last compliment i had was for a member of the aircrew saying she, “Love your style”.
Its been almost 3 years. I’ve not forgotten it.
As for my style, some would consider it somewhat eccentric. Take English country gentleman (tweeds, tattersall shirts, corduroy trouserd, etc) and plsce it in a country where it looks out of place!
Girl I met one summer back in uni (22 years ago) after about 20 minutes of talking said I had the most beautiful brown eyes she’d ever seen. Think is I have really dark brown eyes most take for black. So she was really keen to notice.
A lot of my friends have told me that I’m the most badass person they know. I think about that a lot when I need to cheer up, and it works like a charm.
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I’m so deprived of compliments that I’ll take anything
A dandy walking down the street with his girlfriend hand in hand. Points at me, looks me in the eye and says, “Killer moustache, man!”
I’ve had a girl and her mom tell me that I’m gorgeous. I was a bit stunned when she said it.
Two girls resting their heads on each shoulder and got told my shoulders were big and comfy
I was a little kid (7-10, I don’t remember exactly), with my mom at an airport, about to get on a plane for the first time. I took my sketchbook with me. Drawing was my #1 favorite thing to do, so I had a ton of practice and was remarkably good for my age. A total stranger notices, looks at it, and tells me “you’re an amazing artist”. He wasn’t belittling or humoring me, it wasn’t “you WILL BE an amazing artist” – he was impressed. He told me and then just went on his day like he’d made a comment about the weather. I didn’t see him for more than 30 seconds but I can still picture what he looked like to this day even after 20+ years. I didn’t end up making a career out of drawing, but I still think of him from time to time when I make random doodles. I hope he’s having a great life because I held those words with me for years.
You’re a good man. I’m happy to have met you. You always teach me something
“You are the most emotionally resilient person I know.”
“Boy, your prose is ridickalus”
[When asked what she wants for her birthday] “I want nothing other than for you to cook for me and give me the good D”
Too deep!
I forget most compliments I receive but remember the weird ones. 2 come to mind, the first one was when I was picking up some pizza at a Pizza Hut and the young cashier girl complimented my glasses. The guys were giggling in the back so I assumed she was shooting her shot so I just smiled and said “thank you” just to be nice.
Second one was when I was lined up at Costco and this girl was like “WHO’S WEARING THAT COLOGNE!?” It was the most aggressive ask I’ve ever heard irl from a woman and she said it smelled really good.
On two separate, completely unrelated occasions separated by multiple years I caught the eye of a woman who is the singular most rounded, impressive, capable, thoughtful person I have yet to meet.
Then with her having not seen me in ten years immediately recognizing me and being ecstatic to see me.
On top of that her deciding to lock eyes with me during one of her shows and not look away until she was done singing Cole Porter’s Night and Day.
“There is such an oh hungry burning turning beneath my skin and it’s torment won’t be through till you let me spend my life making love to you, night and day, day and night.”
I remember every compliment every woman ever gave me. It’s what keeps me living.
“You were the best lover I ever had. But, more than that…you were my best friend.”
My mother told me recently I have “direct eyes.”
Someone found my joke funny. It was the first time I experienced something like that. The good feeling lasted all of three seconds.
At one point when I was a teenager, my dad and I were arguing about something. And towards the end of the argument, dude said “boy, you’re too much like me”
I don’t believe I’d ever felt more pride and more anger simultaneously in my entire life, and I doubt I will in the future.
Youre the man of my dreams…and then I woke up 😂
I actually have two.
That I definitely had nothing to worry about when it came to bedroom performance. She could’ve been just being nice but I asked for actual critique from this lady. Gave me enough confidence that my future performances usually got back good feedback.
That I had beautiful hair that some women wanted. It’s happened several times. During Covid mask ups I was mistaken as a woman sometimes mainly because of the hair. It was the first time I grew my hair out in my life and it was a nice boost in a darker time.
I had a girl tell me I had a nice smile about eight years ago. I still go into that donut shop once in a while to see if she’s there.
“it’s always so nice speaking with you”
..It is?? 😭
‘you’re ferociously loyal’ in a professional setting by someone who I look upto. I was underpaid, overworked, but people knew my work and what I did. Later I became a freelancer and been talking to people in the industry, I got this during one of the talks.
Back in university a random guy from one of my classes said that when I spoke I had a voice that people want to listen to
“I wish I would have met you earlier in life”. This made me feel great.
A girl once said “if I was as intelligent like you, i would be more confident about myself”
My very first compliment is from my ex’s mom. Till the day we broke up, my ex never complimented me lol, was one of the reasons I broke up with her.
A chick said I had nice eyes. No one ever compliments me on that. I definitely didn’t and still don’t believe her. I hold that compliment near and dear to my heart though.
I can’t tell since I haven’t received a meaningful compliment in so long.
A group of girls in a grocery store told me that I was “fine” and I still remember it vividly. It was in 1998
Drinking at a bar shooting the shit with some old timer, he hade to excuse himself because I made him laugh so hard he spit his teeth out. It was one of my top stories.
I had a girl tell me that she felt safe with me. The pride and intimacy I felt then has yet to be matched.
Best one I ever received.
I was once described as “a man straight from a book” by a friend I was talking to.
Not sure how it’s accurate tho since I’m still single and a virgin at 24 😂
I’ve had a few people tell me they noticed the way my fiancé looks as me like I’m the best thing in the world. I’ve dated other girls and this has never been said to me. My fiancé also compliments me every single day. So it’s pretty awesome as someone who isn’t use to that type of thing.
Someone I was seeing told me how nice my hands are, and it’s always stuck considering my job is based around it.
Well there was that time when…..
Shit.
I forgot.
You’re a really good father
They hit a little different for me since I see people at their worst.
“I wish I was one of your kids” stuck with me over the years.
I have had to hold that kid down or run the team putting him on restraints (he’s really a young adult with developmental issues, but to me, he’s a kid).
I try to be gentle despite his extreme levels of violence (scratching, Biting, kicking) he’s gotten better and has come to view the hospital has something of a safe place.
I have permanent scars from him but none cut quite so deep as the day he told me that.
A gay coworker once said I had a “great dead bod” and that I would do very well in the gay community. I think about it at least once a week. Bob you are an angel.
“I love the way you eat.”
My aunt told me she was proud of me for getting out of an abusive relationship I had been stuck in for years.
I have nice tits
“You have the prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen” a couple times. “You got all the good and bad qualities of my future ex husband”(mixed on that one)
My girl telling me how much she appreciates me, how much I mean to her, how she thinks of me all day during her day, telling me that shes lucky to have me and that she values me.
Never had someone tell me that before… and shes still confused and tells me “im your wife” when I tell her how much that means to me… like its a normal thing to her. But not me. Never felt appreciated or truly wanted for me. Other girls have wanted me but because of things they wanted or saw in me not for the true me
I often get “you’re funny” but only when I’m drinking. Once I was at the doctor for a physical and was told my heart is good for teaching. I have (had?) an innocent heart murmur because I’m thin and I guess it’s good for teaching how blood flows through the heart? Another time I was getting a piercing by a burlesque dancer and was told I have a big tragus lol
I was helping this girl move into her new place with her Mom and Sister. She told me a bit later that her Mom really noticed me, and thought there was something really special about me 🫠😍. Probably the longest sex I had to this day with that girl( an all nighter with breaks😅)… Had to prove her Mom right 🫡.
Wasn’t a compliment, but…
Sophomore year of college after about 2 weeks of class a girl from class that I had never spoken to called for me in the hallway by my name. She had to have made enough of a mental note to remember my name based on roll call. I take it as a compliment.
Many of my colleagues say “you’re so bright”, “you’ve got so much potential” or “I admire your resilience”.
You don’t run from trouble.
One day, a social studies teacher, a brutal guy who had been through a lot of shit in his life, called me “Lone Wolf” in front of the whole group and looked at me with pride. Because I didn’t belong to any group of friends at school and always had my own opinion, and everyone respected me for it. This is the most powerful compliment 🙂
“I may not be the guy who will become the richest, but I’ll make sure my family never goes hungry.” – mother of an ex. Best compliment I ever got.
My wife grabbed my dick and said, “I can’t believe this fits inside of me” and every time I think about it I get hard lol its easy spank bank material when I need that push.
A Nurse complemented my pale blue eyes. First time that happened in years. Still remember it.
Still thinking about when I was told I smelled good at Range USA. “oo damn you smell good” hit different.
One? I receive so few that I remember them all.
I went to my high school reunion a few years ago and one of the girls there yelled out across the room in front of everyone “holy fuck ____ is hot! I want to fuck him!”
She was very drunk. Too drunk to have sex with. But not wrong. Still makes me feel good though.
Was one among many compliments but they aren’t usually that public and that made me feel good.
About 32 years ago, I rode my bike to the library, and I was bending over to lock my bike up when women in a convertible drove by yelled at me, saying, “Nice ass:”
Not a lot to choose from, lol
I used to do standup. One night, a very pretty girl, front row center was laughing and clapping at everything I said. My girlfriend at the time went to the bathroom and that girl was in there with her friend. She told her, “I wanna fuck that little guy while he tells me jokes.”
So I heard the compliment second hand, but I’ll take it.
My optometrist told me she likes the colour of my eyes and she has never seen eyes as grey before. For reference, my eyes are almost completely grey. There is a smudge of blue in there somewhere, but you don’t really see that in most lighting conditions.
I always thought they look kinda dead because of it, but my optometrist liked it.
A batchmate told me once that my presentations were always fun to sit in. And remembering that line always makes me more at ease whenever i have to present anything.
I remember every one ive ever gotten because they’re literally that few and far between the one i remember the most memorable.
I was walking next to this girl out to PE, “Everybody thinks you always look angry but you’re really nice.”
I was 9 we’d moved and i had changed schools the year before which fucked me up for a myriad of reasons and ended up forcing me retake second grade, i didnt fit in, and i was i was 2 years older then my classmates because of being born just after the enrollment cutoff and then being forced to retake 2nd grade. She was quite literally the first person to be nice to me in a year.
I remember every compliment I’ve ever received. 2 in 8 years. One for my shirt and one for my mustache.
At my birthday party one year, I was hanging out with a woman I’d sort of known for a few years via a mutual friend. She told me how guys just assume they can get with women and make physical moves unsolicited.
I’d been keen on her for ages, we were sitting on the floor in my kitchen, and said something like “hey, can I ask you a question, and it can totally be a no… we’re hanging out, and I’ll be honest I find myself really attracted to you… Can I kiss you?”
Her eyes went wide and she said “that’s the sexiest thing anyone has ever said to me” grabbed my face and started making out with me.
That was 7 years ago, and we’ve been married for 3 years.
A woman who described my cock as pretty. Like WTF?
You are the best I’ve ever had. I haven’t met anyone like you
I’ve gotten plenty of appreciation. A few compliments too. Usually along the lines of being loyal, the best friend a person could have, a better parent to my nieces than their own mother, perfect husband material… The general problem is that they don’t come from interested parties. Usually they’re from friends, family, people of the same gender, or married women. Sometimes people who are emotionally unavailable in other ways. I really don’t get it.
An ex made a passive-aggressive comment to me, taking a shot at me but including that I “know I’m handsome” as a negative point. Don’t remember anything after that. A narcissistic woman who posted our business with SZA “I hate you” as a background track. I’ve never had much self confidence about my looks. But a woman who hates me said I’m handsome as an attack. I treasure that.
WOW!…It’s so big.
About 15 years ago my brother in law told me I walked like a Sasquatch. I try to stand up straighter and bend my arms a bit more. I can hardly walk anywhere without thinking about it. I catch a reflection in a window or even my shadow. You might think that’s not a compliment but you’re wrong, constructive criticism can be a compliment, or I have never had one.
I had a co-worker who was a lesbian and she admitted to me on my last day that I turned her bisexual and awoke something in her where she’s into men now too. It still makes me feel good. Like I’m THAT fucking attractive. Damn.
I also had girls touch my face in high school saying how smooth my skin was. One girl just started doing it and was like “WOW your skin is SO smooth!” and another girl did it too.
I my younger days I was kinda/sorta dating a cougar. After the act she asked me to go get her a drink so I got up and went to the kitchen at which point I head, “Goddamn you look good walking away from me.”
Whatever the most recent unexpected compliment I got was. Unfortunately, it’s so rare that the last one I got was roughly 15 years ago
I have brown eyes and big lashes. I was on a trip with my friends, we were swimming in hotel pool. She said my eyes looked like they were filled with honey.
Your dick was the best.
“I feel safe and loved when im with you”
Got compliments on my squat form from
One of the powerlifters at my gym. Felt good.
An ex of mine told me that, “Most people will spend their entire life without experiencing sex like that” completely unprompted
She was toxic as concentrated ammonia but goddamn I would be lying if the sex wasn’t great. I should call her..
Most of my life specially when I was a teenager, people laughed at and bully me because my two front teeth are big. Until recently, someone told me that I have a beautiful smile. It felt so genuine and boosted my confindence instantly. Now, I am proud of my smile regardless of my teeth.
None of us are perfect, but let’s highlight someone’s qualities that makes them beautiful. You have no idea how can you make the world better with this simple gesture.
My dr. Telling me’you are a healthy young man’
Maybe not the best but funny and not one I’ve heard before haha but: you have a pretty penis.
After sex, she told me your butt is pretty
Last compliment i had was for a member of the aircrew saying she, “Love your style”.
Its been almost 3 years. I’ve not forgotten it.
As for my style, some would consider it somewhat eccentric. Take English country gentleman (tweeds, tattersall shirts, corduroy trouserd, etc) and plsce it in a country where it looks out of place!
I have pretty eyes. I don’t get compliments often but if I do it’s my eyes. I do have bright blue eyes and have always been my best feature
You are handsome.
A homeless guy once said “righteous beard man”. So I trimmed it up.
I like your shoulders. It’s the best compliment ever besides when some female friends complimented me on my bulge through swim suit.
u r so handsome
Well, this one woman married me, had a kid with me, and has been with me for 22 years. Very flattering.
Girl I met one summer back in uni (22 years ago) after about 20 minutes of talking said I had the most beautiful brown eyes she’d ever seen. Think is I have really dark brown eyes most take for black. So she was really keen to notice.
This woman full on kissed me before they took the picture I was prob 6
A lot of my friends have told me that I’m the most badass person they know. I think about that a lot when I need to cheer up, and it works like a charm.
I was once called a beautiful person. Been holding on to that for 15 years