The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering. — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
The fit of jeans can be worlds apart from brand to brand. If you can find the right fit, skinny jeans can… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
It's flattering that there are lots of Internet fan sites about me. I'm a bit of a technophobe and I don't even… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Yes, but knee pants are so much more flattering. You can see my legs." You want people to see your legs?" I… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't.… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
I keep getting amazing things to bring to life. There's always something to discover with 'Dr. Bailey,' something that brings her home… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I feel very extroverted again. My attention can be on the person in front of me instead of wondering, "Oh my God,… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response… Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Anytime you can get people to watch you on anything, it's very flattering. — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
