Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered. — Bartolomeo d'Alviano Copy Share Image
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Simon called you 'Machiavelli disguised as a debutante.'" "Gosh," I said, not sure whether to feel flattered or insulted.” — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right. That's fine and dandy. I'm flattered. — Soupy Sales Copy Share Image
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I am very glad I did 'EastEnders,' and I'm flattered that people still remember me in it. — Anita Dobson Copy Share Image
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and… — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Flattered as I am that you count me among the beautiful people, Barrons, allow me to point out that I’m still alive.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
The subject of the matter is you're all that matters. Your heart will never be shattered, I know your past, broken and… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge.… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's… — Andrea Romano Copy Share Image
Steven Soderbergh really likes Irréversible, that's about all I can tell you. About the making, well, it was a very particular situation,… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
I'm so flattered that at 69, people are booking me and finding me on Instagram. — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
