Flattering Quotes

166 quotes by 154 authors

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me,… — Helen Oyeyemi
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To… — Kurt Vonnegut
How flattering,â€ I grumbled. â€œMy soul glows. — Rick Riordan
Iâ€™m sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose) Old boyfriend? (Gallagher) No, my great-grandfather. (Rose) Thatâ€™s not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people… — Jodi Picoult
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.â€¦ The people can never understand why the President does not use… — Harry S. Truman
But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?" "No," said Jace. "Do you think Hodge will want any soup?" "No… — Cassandra Clare
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone… — Steven Pinker
Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering." "Are you saying that you -" "Doughnuts!"… — Rachel Caine
Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I`m the son of Poseidon. I`m from Camp Half-Blood. — Rick Riordan
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive… — William Hazlitt
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we donâ€™t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with… — Jonathan Franzen
However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for… — Herman Melville
It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal. — Jude Deveraux
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of… — Benedict Cumberbatch
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it. — Laura Linney
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where… — William Hazlitt
A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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