Flattering Quotes

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

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

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

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

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

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

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.

I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. Personally, I'm honored.

I'm never going to be like, "Oh, this attention from women sucks." It's flattering 99 percent of the time.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

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.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

Man.God.Roarke. An interesting and flattering lineup.

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.