To ask your favourite ever compliment?

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What's the best compliment you've ever received?

My personal favourite ever has been "You've got a nice nose. Like Boris Becker".

Not a compliment as such but was sat in the front window of my flat (which is very close to the pavement of a busy road) in my pjs just out the shower laughing at a video when a lady caught my eye and was smiling.
2 mins later she was back and shouted through the window "can I take your photo" and took my photo and left!
clearly saw something special about my 5 sizes too big dressing gown

FenellaMaxwell, I'm in floods.

What a lovely memory.
Gotta pull myself together and make the dinner!

A friend once told me that she admired the way I was able to balance family and work and not be a baby bore.

It was one of those things I think as she was saying it she suddenly thought I might be upset by, but actually as I told her, I'm much much more than just a mother!

"You look so pretty mummy"

From my dd 2.9

No one EVER compliments me and I am really v ordinary so my heart nearly exploded.

Favourite ever was from a lovely old man on the train to the airport when I was on my year abroad during my degree. We'd had a nice chat for about 30 mins in his language and then as I was getting ready to get off at the airport stop he asked where I was going, and when I replied "home", he was shocked that I wasn't native as my language was perfect . That made my year

A colleague recently retired, and I emailed her to say good bye and good luck etc. (not in the same location as me - I did send her a card too!) Anyway, she replied and said that I was "one of life's beautiful people".

I was so touched. I'm not particularly beautiful to look at, so I'm sure she didn't mean physically beautiful, and this made it an even more lovely compliment. It was such a lovely thing to say.

I was attending an evening event with a client, in my professional capacity. When I left, my very handsome client walked me to the door, leaned in to give me a polite kiss on the cheek to say goodbye, and whispered in my ear, "You are fucking stunning", before turning back towards the bar without another word.

I suspect mucho wine had been consumed.

My DH's idea of a compliment is to look me up and down and say "Fuck me, what've you come as?"

I used to frequent a wine bar with a friend which was attached to s rowdy pub. We were shy retiring types and would just sit with a nice wine and sometimes take in some cheese. The manager came up to me, took my hand in both of his, looked me dead in the eye and said "you are gorgeous" and walked off.

I've never really thought it myself, I just look how I look. We loved that olace and the chaps that worked there . I was very sad when I moved from that city. I'll always have that memory.

I've just lost one of a few baby weights stones, and dh came up behind my tonight - can't remember what he said but I replied 'I'm a fat bint'. He said 'you're my ffff.... Lover*

Made me laight

Laugh* FS autocorrect.

Can't think of one for me just now but I recently gave one to a mum at school bus stop as she walked over ; that she'd arrived in a cloud of fragrance (her perfume was lovely & must have been just sprayed on) and she said it was the nicest compliment she'd ever received. So that made me happy

Not really a compliment, but when I returned from 3 months' travelling (longest I'd been away from home/ friends/ family at that point) I saw my mum and friend through the glass in the arrivals area whilst waiting to collect my bag. I burst into tears and this old man said to me 'Don't worry honey, if they're not there you can come home with us'. It was just so sweet and made me smile!

Got told my stomach was so "vast" once. That guy really loved me but 25 years later that is still funny.

"You're the best teacher, ever. I love you!" I know this gets said to all teachers and children are fickle things and can have 3 'best teachers' in a day! But, at the moment they say it, they mean it.

"I like your hair today"/"You look really pretty, Miss" Always good to hear from anyone, but from a Year 6 girl...

"Wow, is that your mum? She's really cool." Girl in my son's year at school to my son.

My 2 year old DD while cuddling and kissing me during story time squeezed me and said: "you're my special juicy girl". I was heavily pregnant and so touched I wanted that moment to last for ever.

One from callow youths uni students in my class, who didn't realise I was walking behind them:

"I really wouldn't mind if she was my mum. That'd be, like, cool, to be able to talk about uni stuff with her"

(initially i was indignant, but eventually conceded that being 20 years older I am theoretically old enough to be his mother)

One from a friend, today, who knows that I am pregnant and feel I have no idea what I'm doing most of the time, but especially no idea about parenting, coming from a fairly abusive and unfriendly family:
"your kid is lucky. It couldn't have better parents"

I took dd for lunch when she was about 2 and a half, and an older couple stopped and said how much they had enjoyed sitting next to us and what a delightful child dd was on their way out.

And yesterday, my big tough, not prone to showing emotion best male friend of 35 years posted something on FB about friendship. I replied that I hoped I counted, and he wrote 'Always'. A reference to Harry Potter that made me cry at the cinema with him years ago. I guess you'd need to know him to understand why that put a lump in my throat.

Standing in lift in Los Angeles with dh and dd when dd1 was a year old. American man said to dh 'you have a beautiful family'. I suppose I could have taken umbrage at being dh's property but I thought it was such a nice thing for a stranger to say and I like to think he picked up on our happy vibe.

Man in central pub came over to me and said 'you're the most beautiful woman in here'. He wasn't a swaggery type and I was wearing a huge woolly jumper with rollneck and had felt ridiculously dressed down all night.

I wish I had been told I was clever, intelligent, able, capable, talented more when I was younger, s as I didn't find my confidence until nearly 40 when I realised I was bloody good at my job and that's why I got where I was - not just luck!

Oh and Fenella your post made me cry too. What a wonderful thing for your father to say

On a first date last week, we'd met online. He said that from my photos he'd got himself convinced he must be being catfished. I'm not what you would call stereotypically beautiful so that was lovely to hear. And he asked me out again.

Backhanded ones from a clueless Tim-nice-but-dim guy trying to ask me out at uni:

Your eyes are lovely big and brown like a cows and your hair I'd describe as dishwater blonde

He appeared surprised that I was not flattered

My three year old said yesterday "mummy, I love your eyes, they're so beautiful and browny " :-)

You've got a face like a baby dolphin.

No, really, it was meant as a compliment.

From an elderly man in the supermarket when I returned his smile.

"OOh, you've got a beautiful smile. You've made me day. No One ever smiles back anymore."

Best backhanded compliment...

Whilst pregnant in Spain, everyone told me how gorda I was. Now the literal translation of gorda is 'fat', but for pregnancy I suppose it's like 'growing and blooming'. So every other day I'd hear, 'how fat you are'. As much as I tried to tell myself it was a positive compliment for the Spanish, I came home and bawled my eyes out every time I heard it.