Audience Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

— Martin Parr

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at…

— Samuel Johnson

After I confess, you shoot me down by saying 'I'm flattered but.....'

— Anonymous

I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.

— Wesley Eisold

I’m even flattered! It’s what success is like. I’m happy I seem unreal to them, it means I’m doing a good job,

— Valeria Lukyanova

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

— Julia Roberts

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.

— Willam Belli

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

— Jimmy Hill

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether…

— Samuel Johnson

Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and…

— Anonymous