Flattering Quotes

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying.

So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

Femininity is wearing shoes that make it difficult to run, skirts that inhibit movement, and underclothes that interfere with blood circulation. It can hardly be coincidental that the clothes men find most flattering on a woman are precisely those that make it most difficult for her to defend herself against aggression.

One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?It is quite flattering, Mr. Churchill replied, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol.

It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master;

as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

There's no such thing as a flattering definition of a doodle.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan.

Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering.

But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

The conductor must breathe life into the score.

It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers.

I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all.

But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering.

I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.