Flattered Quotes
130 Flattered quotes by 113 unique authors
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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
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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
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When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me
— Smokey Robinson
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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
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I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
— Jilly Cooper
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I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.
— Lady Gaga
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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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
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
— Ted Dexter
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life,
— Terrell Suggs
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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
Who Wrote These Flattered Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 130 Flattered Quotes, led by these top contributors: