What is the best compliment you have ever received?

[Amiable]

I've seen a couple of threads recently about horrible things you've overheard someone say about you, or back-handed compliments, so thought it was time for a more positive thread!

What is the best compliment / nicest thing anyone has ever said about you or to you?

One of my favourite ever colleagues said to me how impressed he was that I could talk to anyone, however senior/important, and always seemed comfortable with public speaking. At the time I really didn't feel that way, but it gave me the confidence boost I needed and now I do feel it!

My wonderful boss who I absolutely loved left. I was very very sad. She said as she was leaving that she thought one of the best things she had done in her career was hire me. Tears.

Somebody told me once that I was the least materialistic person they'd met in their life. I'm not sure they meant it as a compliment but I took it as one.

Well I would like to compliment you as you sound like a kind and genuine person.

My own nice compliment was to once receive a card from a lady I supported when I was a domestic violence worker. She took the trouble to say how much she appreciated my gentle nature at a difficult time.

This is such a nice thread. Two stick out for me.

When DD was 1, we were having a lot of work done on our house so the handyman was around a lot. One day he told me "you are one of the best mothers I have ever seen". It absolutely wasn't and isn't remotely true if he knew my mothering skills day in and day out (!) but it has always stayed with me because here was this old guy who thought I was doing a great job.

My other one was when I was in a changing room at a spa, in my bathing suit, when I was in my second trimester with DD2. A woman came up to me and told me how beautiful and absolutely glowing I was. It still makes me smile!

I was going through a very rough time at work and a colleague, who I hardly knew said "you'll be ok you're a formidable woman"

I once had a girl tell me she had stopped taking her anti-depressants since she'd met me.

It was an extremely nice compliment but carried a bit of a burden as well

I love this!

We were at parent's evening once, and the teacher told us we'd done a fabulous job with our four DC, (he'd taught all of them). My DH told him he worked away most of the time and that it was all down to me. I was almost in tears at that.

I have been told I'm feisty more than once. I think it was meant as a compliment. 😂

Your a strong mumma.

Said by a lady in the street. Because I was using a double carrier to carry my toddlers. One on My back one on my front 💪

Wasn't meant as a compliment, but I was attending a poetry/reading/burlesque cabaret show and I was asked if I was performing.

Later came out that the woman who asked me said I 'looked like I was a literature type', people may find this very weird, but it really pleased me haha

By my fathers accountant

That my dad lived a lovely life and managed to have so many happy years towards the end of his life because we dedicated ourselves to him

It was out of the blue
He rang uo with a payment query and I had been feeling low following. His death and was worried that I had not done enough (did many great things for him now when I look back)

The greatest compliment I have ever got

I just remembered a good one. I was getting divorced, going to the Law Courts for paperwork, asked the security guard where I was supposed to go and he said, "who on earth would divorce YOU?"

Made my year, that one. I hope he did it to every woman who walked in there!

That Emma Watson could be my daughter

Can't think of the best one off the top of my head but earlier I was doing a Harry Potter Sorting Hat quiz with DD8. One of the questions was 'what would your friends say about you?' I asked her (about me) and she replied 'really wise' 🥹 really surprised me, wasn't what I expected at all x

How lovely

@Emdubz i was speechless

And I was so right now looking back

I had the awful guilt as he went to a home for the last four months
He was 87

Because Italians are cool as fuck. Amazing dress sense, confidence, glamorous, usually stunning. I go to Italy often and see incredible looking people dressed like models round every corner.

I'd much rather someone thought I was Italian than the much vaunted French chic!

Someone told me yesterday that I looked like I had a really kind soul and she couldn't explain it but it felt so genuine the way she expressed it and that meant a lot to me.

Being told my teen son had been exceptionally kind to someone, but it was no surprise to them as "you've raised him to be a fabulous human".

Made me well up, and I'm a tough old trout.

Mine relates to my children.

A neighbour commented on how confident, self assertive and generally lovely they are. Not stuck up or self important and that they see the best in everyone and make everyone around them feel better by just being them.

Then they said "that's down to you and how you've raised them".

One of my proudest moments that is.

After my dad died, his brother told me that me and my sister were the best children any man could have had. He looked just like my dad too. it was lovely.

My son (aged about 20 at the time) told me that I was the most likeable person he knew - and that his friends thought so too.

About a year ago a small group of ex colleagues dropped me a message to say they'd been talking and all agreed I was the best manager they'd ever had.

Was a wonderful surprise and such a boost. I'd been feeling a bit like I'd lost my way at work and it gave me a much needed lift.

Back in the mid 70s l was in a restaurant in London with friends.
David and Angie Bowie were there too. One of the friends I was with knew David, he had worked with him.
They invited us to have a drink with them, both lovely, very friendly. And David absolutely stunned me by telling me l had 'amazing eyes'.
I still can't quite believe it, nearly 50 years on, but my best friend was there too, and she corroborates what he said.

I work in healthcare. When I was very junior, working up to 100 hour weeks and feeling very sad and stressed, someone thanked me for how I cared for their mother when she was dying.

It meant so much.

RicherThanYews Well, you sound genuinely lovely. Thoughtful and kind, which matter much more than being pretty, skinny, clever or funny.
It's a good soul who takes the time to compliment others and think of their feelings. I wish more people were like you x