The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial Copy Share Image
No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering. — Laura Smith Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be like, "Oh, this attention from women sucks." It's flattering 99 percent of the time. — Taylor Kitsch Copy Share Image
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Red carpet dressing all depends on the climate. I think richer, deeper colours are more flattering on the body, but the opposite… — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi… — Steven R. McQueen Copy Share Image
You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
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.… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
I think I do my own thing. I start my own trends. I see a lot of girls doing what I've been… — Paula Creamer Copy Share Image
You might be someone's favorite, but you might not be someone else's favorite. I will tell you that there was a [casting… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play.… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one… — Rick Ross 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
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner 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
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
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
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
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
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image