Flattered Quotes

130 Flattered quotes by 113 unique authors

Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with… — Madeleine Albright
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people… — Richie Ashburn
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me — Smokey Robinson
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state… — Lord Chesterfield
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969. — Jilly Cooper
I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted. — Mary Ann Shaffer
People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you. — Lady Gaga
That the win came only days after the Ryder Cup announcement was not a coincidence. Being a captain's pick is a huge honor, and I… — Stewart Cink
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown… — Samuel Johnson
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his… — Samuel Johnson
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,… — Samuel Johnson
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and… — William Shakespeare
They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a… — William Shakespeare
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by… — Alex Pentland
I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner… — Marc Maron
Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. — Ted Dexter
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back… — Leonard Nimoy
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty… — Valeria Lukyanova
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it… — William Blake
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean de La Fontaine
I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life, — Terrell Suggs
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise… — Charles Caleb Colton

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